We use Elixir at TV Labs to build our web services, a realtime matching engine, execute sandboxed Lua code, talk to microcontrollers over binary protocols, machine learning, and much more.
It is an excellent general purpose language that succeeds in a lot of domains.
Check out my conversation from Developer Voices for more info
Elixir is not a sandboxed language, so you can't just accept arbitrary Elixir programs from users and execute them inside of your application without security concerns. Lua, on the other hand, can be executed in a sandboxed fashion, limiting and constraining the reach of user programs.
Both the Lua library and Luerl predate Pythonx. I started this library nearly 2 years ago, its only now that I'm releasing a stable version.
However, Pythonx was originally created by a member of our team, Cocoa, who built it in her own free time. The Livebook team forked her project, conceptually, and released it.
Thanks, I really appreciate that. While its not my main focus by any means, its been a really fun project to chip away at (both the higher level library and Luerl itself).
I do think that it has the potential to be really great with continued investment
More seriously, I considered alternate names, but settled on this because it was short, literal, and given that its in the context of Elixir, makes sense when using it.
As you stated, the hope is to consolidate it into Luerl at some point
Rather than promtail, have you looked at Vector? I just started an MVP of shipping logs directly to our product for end-user consumption using Vector + NATS, and it’s a killer combination.
Compared to Promtail, you have incredibly flexibility with how you collect, transform, and ship logs, with end to end confirmation and great documentation. Using promtail felt inferior once I made the switch
It is an excellent general purpose language that succeeds in a lot of domains.
Check out my conversation from Developer Voices for more info
https://youtu.be/_MwXbHADT-A?si=2lRqjwAY9dsODyhW