Comment by Nuzzerino
9 months ago
I haven't tried it yet but I've wondered if Elixir might be a good choice for a game server with many concurrent players.
9 months ago
I haven't tried it yet but I've wondered if Elixir might be a good choice for a game server with many concurrent players.
Definitely and for chat.
BEAM/HiPE VM allows native linking using NIFs so it's possible to integrate Erlang or Elixir with C-compatible projects for critical code sections, library interfacing, and perhaps even the majority of a performance-critical game engine as native code. Rustler also exists to write NIFs in Rust. Recall how VMware ESXi core tech was implemented mostly as Linux kernel modules and heavily-modified Linux to turn it inside-out as a type-1 hypervisor.