In this episode of Elixir Mix, we are joined by inimitable Luke Imhoff who takes us on a wild journey through his background from low-level, to high-level and straight back into compiler land as we work our way towards talking about Lumen. And what a conversation that is. WebAssembly, working group politics, sneaking binaries into the enterprise and so much more. The big take-away is that the Lumen project is a very cool effort to give us more options for running Erlang, Elixir and friends that are suitable for entirely different use-cases. Also, clearly, that the Lumen team is carrying the torch for all functional languages in the WASM Working Group. If you are curious about Lumen or WebAssembly this one is for you.

Sponsors * Audible.com * Groxio.io | Career Rocket Fuel For Curious Coders * CacheFly

Panel * Alex Koutmos * Josh Adams * Lars Wikman * Sophie DeBenedetto

Guest * Luke Imhoff

Links * Asm.js * WebAssembly * Lumen * Asterius * https://github.com/tweag/asterius

Picks Alex Koutmos:

  • Ecto 3.5 RC
  • https://hexdocs.pm/ecto/3.5.0-rc.1/Ecto.ParameterizedType.html

Sophie DeBenedetto:

  • https://www.hokaoneone.com/
  • ElixirConf 2020

Lars Wikman:

  • Krustlet – Especially the Software Sessions episode on it which also gave a good overview of WASM, WASI and what WebAssembly is

Luke Imhoff:

  • This Week In Virology

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Special Guest: Luke Imhoff.