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Elixir WizardsZigler: Zig NIFs for Elixir with Isaac YonemotoIn the Season 14 premiere, hosts Dan Ivovich and Sundi Myint chat with Isaac Yonemoto, creator of the Zigler library, to explore how Zigler brings Zig’s performance and safety to Elixir through Native Implemented Functions (NIFs). Isaac walks through the core design of Zigler and how it auto-generates the Elixir-to-Zig bridge, enforces type safety, and exposes multiple execution modes (normal, dirty, threaded). The conversation covers real-world applications, from SIMD-powered token selection for LLM hardware acceleration to OTP-style fault tolerance in low-level code.
Isaac shares his own journey: stepping back from professional software work to launch a biotech st...
2025-05-2943 min
Thinking Elixir Podcast170: Thinking Elixir NewsNews this week includes the release of ElixirConf 2023 video playlist featuring keynote videos, a guide on Web Application Security Best Practices for BEAM languages from the EEF Security Working Group, the release of NextLS v0.12 with exciting new features, and a new library to integrate the JavaScript all-in-one toolkit, Bun with Phoenix. A new LangChain library makes it easy to integrate Elixir applications with an LLM like ChatGPT. Regarding the open source community, we discuss the major update in the Lodash JS project, the latest PostgreSQL 16 release, and a noteworthy article from ZigLang on bounties potentially damaging open source...
2023-09-2620 minThinking Elixir Podcast158: From Ruby to Elixir with Steve BusseyA challenge for many people learning Elixir is the change in the mental model. Coming from OOP to Functional changes how we reason about our applications and the old way doesn't always map over cleanly. Also, Elixir is capable of doing a lot more than other languages and frameworks can and this means learning how to build a “normal” application may change. We talk with Steve Bussey about his new book “From Ruby to Elixir” that aims to help people bridge that gap. While the title says “Ruby”, we discuss how many of the concepts apply to people coming from most OO...
2023-07-0457 minThinking Elixir Podcast101: Replicating SQLite using Litestream with Ben JohnsonBen Johnson explains his project Litestream.io, an OpenSource tool that replicates SQLite databases to remote servers and to backup locations like S3 for durability. We talk about how moving data out to the user creates true edge applications. We discuss what types of problems this helps solve, the architectures that become possible, and how a globally distributed Phoenix application could use this. He shares how Fly.io acquired the project and brought him on full-time to continue his work on it. Fascinating discussion that challenges many of the assumptions about how we've been building “web” systems for years.
2022-05-311h 02Thinking Elixir Podcast83: Zig and Zigler with Isaac YonemotoWe talk with Isaac Yonemoto about the Zig language and his Zigler Elixir library. We learn where Zig came from, why it is capturing people's interest, and how Zigler makes it easy to write native, cross-compiled NIFs in Elixir! At the end we shift into talking about his OpenAPI Elixir project that comes at the problem from a different direction than others. A fun get-to-know-you with Isaac and a great look into Zig and where it might go with Elixir in the future.
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/83
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2022-01-2545 min
Elixir WizardsThe Bridge Between Elixir and Zig with Isaac YonemotoWhile NIFs provide a great way to interface with native code in the BEAM machine, the process can also be rather error-prone. Thankfully, since Isaac Yonemoto built Zigler, things have become a lot simpler, and he joins us today to talk about how. Isaac is an Elixir developer with a background in biotech and we kick off the discussion by hearing about his journey into programming and some of the ways that he has combined it with science. From there we hear more about the different languages Isaac has worked in and why he fell in love with Elixir...
2021-08-0546 min
Let's Talk Bitcoin!LTB E174 - Potent Compounds*Subscribe to the [LTBn All Podcasts feed](http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheDailyBitcoinShow)or the [Let's Talk Bitcoin! show only feed](http://feeds.feedburner.com/ltb/ltb) and never miss an episode again. ##On Todays Show * **Stephanie** conducts a wide-ranging interview with Isaac Yonemoto, founder of [IndySci.org](http://www.indysci.org/) and [Project Marilyn](http://pledge.indysci.org/)  ##Sponsors for Episode 174 2014 Sponsor - [KryptoKit](http://kryptokit.com) If you'd like to learn more about Sponsoring an upcoming episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin, Stay Tuned! We're changing how we do things to make things...
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