Isn't the whole point of abstraction to not care about whats underneath unless you really have to? But ideally, you don't because the abstraction is "good enough"?

I haven't heard anyone writing code in Elixir complain about performance issues.

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nesarkvechnep 6 hours ago | parent [-]

What’s up with the last paragraph? Nobody is complaining because the BEAM is good enough for the typical use case?

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dnautics 5 hours ago | parent [-]

because you're not reaching for elixir when you need performance.

btw we do sometimes bitch about performance :)

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abrookewood 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

But then we have ports/NIFs etc that shell out to Rust & Zig ...

	▲	nesarkvechnep 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not a silver bullet. There are also C nodes but they’re used even less.

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nesarkvechnep 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I asked because I do it sometimes too.