Stack overflow surveys seem to indicate Elixir is the most envied language. I assume this is because of its functional nature. After some research, it seems Elixir runs on the Erlang VM. To me, running as bytecode on a VM seems like an obvious flaw holding the language back. What's odd is that Elixir devs seem to worship the "BEAM". What would you think about a true compiler for Elixir? To take the world's most envied language and improve it by making it run as a native linux binary.Am I missing something? It seems like the obvious next step, but the Elixir community seems to be a cult that's convinced themselves it's a good thing their language runs in a VM.
>>108018609I kinda like Elixir but it's slow as shit.
Yeah it seems like it would be. I would think if it were truly compiled it would be much faster. Might also see smaller file sizes for release builds and less memory usage.
If it gets a compiler, it will just be yet another GCC/LLVM frontend, which is fucking lame. I don't care if it's astronoically more effort, I don't want everything to be the same 5 software, period. It's not just because it's lame, which is the most important reason, frankly, but also because it's bad for a software ecosystem if nobody makes something from scratch.
