152: Rust and Elixir Play Great Together
Thinking Elixir Podcast
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Elixir's Package Manager for Rust Applications
The Rustler project is in Elixir package sort of, you know, it's deployed to hex. It was very early, early days, but just recently and I think 2021, it got a pretty big update that uses Rust macros and Elixir macros more heavily. And also added some macro definitions or special declarations you can put over things like decorators and Python are used for Airlaying. So the interface is pretty simple, but the Rustler dependency is like you just add the Rust depth, you run mix rustler.new which will generate a directory with a Cargo app kind of set up. That's the subdirectory of your Elixir app.
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