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		cultofmetatron 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly wor... built my startup in elixir. love it but nifs are one of the few ways you can crash the VM. I don't trust myseld to write a nif in production. no way I'd do it with AI in c. Thank god theres projects like rustler which can catch panics before it crashes the main VM.

worthless-trash 3 months ago [–]

You could always use ports, or the external port drivers.

cultofmetatron 89 days ago | [–]

I'd say for 90% of times you'd want this, spin it off to a microservice over grpc or rabbitmq.

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