81: Elixir in a Burrito with Quinn and Digit

We talk with Digit and Quinn Wilton about the Burrito project. It wraps up Elixir to a single binary, enables cross-platform builds, and uses Zig to help while also enabling NIFs! They share how the security focused software they create uses this to run in isolated environments where Elixir can’t be installed. A really cool project that can be used for one-off scripts, long running CLI applications with full OTP features and more. They share some of the challenges they had to overcome in creating Burrito and how it being OpenSource helps the company and their project.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/81

Elixir Community News

• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.13.1 – Elixir 1.13.1 released. Bug fixes.
• https://github.com/BeaconCMS/beacon – BeaconCMS announced by Dockyard
• https://twitter.com/1stAvenger/status/1474167882946957313 – Mike Binns talks about his work on BeaconCMS
• https://github.com/cloveapp/notion_renderer – Steve Bussey released a Notion renderer for Phoenix
• https://ziglang.org/download/0.9.0/release-notes.html – Zig release updates
• https://twitter.com/wojtekmach/status/1477196958179680256 – Wojtek Mach gives context to the Zig release for Elixir
• https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves_system_br/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v1180 – Nerves updates in time for the New Year
• https://twitter.com/NervesProject/status/1477054737921060869 – Nerves update announcement on Twitter
• https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peerstritzinger/grisp-2/posts/3394103 – Grisp 2 Boards Kickstarter update

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

Discussion Resources

• https://github.com/burrito-elixir/burrito
• https://github.com/wojtekmach/elixir-run – Wojtek Mach's experiment
• https://github.com/spawnfest/bakeware
• https://github.com/bake-bake-bake/bakeware – Bakeware project
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8-9yZlye30 – Quinn's talk
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQb58bqwDOc – Digit's talk
• https://www.synopsys.com/
• https://hex.pm/packages/teex
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir_make
• https://github.com/ndreynolds/ratatouille
• https://github.com/nsf/termbox
• https://ziglang.org/
• https://llvm.org/
• https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/

Guest Information

• https://twitter.com/wilton_quinn – Quinn on Twitter
• https://github.com/QuinnWilton/ – Quinn on Github
• https://quinnwilton.com/ – Quinn's Site
• https://twitter.com/doawoo – Digit on Twitter
• https://github.com/doawoo – Digit on Github
• https://puppy.surf – Digit's Site

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