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pythonaut_16 on Oct 17, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: An Interview with Jose Valim, Creator of Elixir

In fact the opposite is true! Rust is a pretty popular choice for writing native code (NIFs) for Elixir. (Similar to Ruby FFI).

See https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler

Discord especially has several real world use cases where they've implemented native code in Rust.

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