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I've been meaning to write a StarCraft 1 AI bot and put in the 24/7 SSCAIT tournament on Twitch but... never enough time. Elixir seems like the perfect fit, though it's unclear whether it can handle the computations when things get hectic.


For performance intensive tasks, you could rely on Rust NIFs, there is this great project: https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler

My last project with Elixir was using Elixir merely as an orchestrator of static binaries (developed in golang) which were talking in JSON via stdin/stdout.


Yep I've used Rustler with great success.

And yep Elixir is an amazing orchestrator. But when the time comes I'll gauge whether I can't get most of the benefits with async Rust.


Elixir has nx project for numerical computing


Ah, but I have zero interest in AI. I just want a good algorithm. :)




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