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		onebot on Feb 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust Think replacing elixir with Rust would ever be a consideration? Rust isn't there yet, but if you are NIF'ing a bunch of stuff, seems like it could make sense at some point?

meowface on Feb 4, 2020 [–]

I Googled around, but couldn't find the answer. What is "NIF"?

dnautics on Feb 5, 2020 | [–]

https://erlang.org/doc/man/erl_nif.html

Short: ffi for erlang.

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