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		rkangel on Feb 11, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: José Valim Reveals “Project Nx” (Numerical Elixir)... Two ideas that might help: Elixir releases are built in and easy to use. You don't have to write an app file directly for instance. I usually use ports for C interface (rather than NIFs). I have a little boilerplate C and Elixir that I recycle to do the ground work and then it's just your specific implementation detail.

toast0 on Feb 11, 2021 [–]

Yeah, so I'd write just as much (or likely more) C code to interface with the library and BEAM as just writing the implementation in C.

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