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What’s up with the last paragraph? Nobody is complaining because the BEAM is good enough for the typical use case?
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because you're not reaching for elixir when you need performance.

btw we do sometimes bitch about performance :)

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But then we have ports/NIFs etc that shell out to Rust & Zig ...
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Not a silver bullet. There are also C nodes but they’re used even less.
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I asked because I do it sometimes too.
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