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		linkdd on Jan 9, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AI Toolkit: Give a brain to your game's NPCs, a he... 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.

pdimitar on Jan 9, 2024 [–]

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.

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