Isaac Yonemoto's guest appearances

Isaac Yonemoto

Elixir Wizards

Thinking Elixir Podcast

Connor Rigby

Michael Crumm

Chris McCord

Devon Estes

José Valim

Jim Freeze

Jonatan Kłosko

Dave Lucia

Saša Jurić

Chris Bell

Nathan Willson

Mike Binns

Jason Axelson

Quinn Wilton

Ben Wilson

OwlTail

We talk with Isaac Yonemoto about the Zig language and his Zigler Elixir library. We learn where Zig came from, why it is capturing people's interest, and how Zigler makes it easy to write native, cross-compiled NIFs in Elixir! At the end we shift into talking about his OpenAPI Elixir project that comes at the problem from a different direction than others. A fun get-to-know-you with Isaac and a great look into Zig and where it might go with Elixir in the future. Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/83 Elixir Community News  https://gleam.run/news/gleam-v0.19-released/ – Gleam release v0.19 enables publishing Gleam packages to Hex as Erlang libraries. https://github.com/gleam-lang/mix_gleam – Mix Gleam makes it easier to integrate Gleam into your Elixir project Brooklin Myers joined DockYard as a full time employee to help build an open Elixir bootcamp. https://github.com/lpil/thoas/ – Jason library ported to Erlang https://www.irif.fr/~gc/stageElixir.en.html – Masters project working to add "Set-theoretic types" to Elixir https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/issues/1957 – Neovim performance impact from tree-sitter regression https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/issues/1510 – Link to the tree-sitter issue https://twitter.com/pragprog/status/1481287351376629766 – The Elixir and Nerves book "Build a Weather Station with Elixir and Nerves" is now out of beta and available at PragProg https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2022/#register – LambdaDays rescheduled dates are Thu, 28 Jul 2022 - Fri, 29 Jul 2022 https://github.com/livebook-dev/kino/issues/72 – Using Livebook for interviewing https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/75 – Our interview with Dave Lucia at SimpleBet  Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com Discussion Resources  https://twitter.com/DNAutics/status/1425819709895806976 https://ziglang.org/ https://github.com/ityonemo/zigler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDfjdGva3NE&amp;list=PLqj39LCvnOWZna91xJ_i44g3rx4Brbpnv&amp;index=31 – Isaac's Elixir Conf 2021 Presentation about Zig https://julialang.org/ https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ https://llvm.org/ https://gcc.gnu.org/ https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replacement-gcc-clang.html https://gohugo.io/ https://www.openapis.org/ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apiarist https://github.com/ityonemo/exonerate https://hexdocs.pm/exonerate/Exonerate.html  Guest Information  https://twitter.com/DNAutics – on Twitter https://github.com/ityonemo/ – on Github https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCarZZW7eavljSdGRQx9kkSA/featured – Isaac's YouTube channel  Find us online  Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward Sponsored By:Fly.io: Fly.io is a great place to deploy your next Phoenix application! Check them out!

We talk with Isaac Yonemoto about the Zig language and his Zigler Elixir library. We learn where Zig came from, why it is capturing people's interest, and how Zigler makes it easy to write native, cross-compiled NIFs in Elixir! At the end we shift into talking about his OpenAPI Elixir project that comes at the problem from a different direction than others. A fun get-to-know-you with Isaac and a great look into Zig and where it might go with Elixir in the future. Show Notes online - <a href="http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/83" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/83</a> Elixir Community News <ul> <li><a href="https://gleam.run/news/gleam-v0.19-released/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://gleam.run/news/gleam-v0.19-released/</a> – Gleam release v0.19 enables publishing Gleam packages to Hex as Erlang libraries.</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/gleam-lang/mix_gleam" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/gleam-lang/mix_gleam</a> – Mix Gleam makes it easier to integrate Gleam into your Elixir project</li> <li>Brooklin Myers joined DockYard as a full time employee to help build an open Elixir bootcamp.</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/lpil/thoas/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/lpil/thoas/</a> – Jason library ported to Erlang</li> <li><a href="https://www.irif.fr/%7Egc/stageElixir.en.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.irif.fr/~gc/stageElixir.en.html</a> – Masters project working to add "Set-theoretic types" to Elixir</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/issues/1957" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/issues/1957</a> – Neovim performance impact from tree-sitter regression</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/issues/1510" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/issues/1510</a> – Link to the tree-sitter issue</li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/pragprog/status/1481287351376629766" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/pragprog/status/1481287351376629766</a> – The Elixir and Nerves book "Build a Weather Station with Elixir and Nerves" is now out of beta and available at PragProg</li> <li><a href="https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2022/#register" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2022/#register</a> – LambdaDays rescheduled dates are Thu, 28 Jul 2022 - Fri, 29 Jul 2022</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/livebook-dev/kino/issues/72" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/livebook-dev/kino/issues/72</a> – Using Livebook for interviewing</li> <li><a href="https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/75" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/75</a> – Our interview with Dave Lucia at SimpleBet</li> </ul> Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at <a href="https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@ThinkingElixir</a> or email at <a href="mailto:show@thinkingelixir.com" rel="nofollow">show@thinkingelixir.com</a> Discussion Resources <ul> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/DNAutics/status/1425819709895806976" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/DNAutics/status/1425819709895806976</a></li> <li><a href="https://ziglang.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ziglang.org/</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/ityonemo/zigler" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/ityonemo/zigler</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDfjdGva3NE&amp;list=PLqj39LCvnOWZna91xJ_i44g3rx4Brbpnv&amp;index=31" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDfjdGva3NE&amp;list=PLqj39LCvnOWZna91xJ_i44g3rx4Brbpnv&amp;index=31</a> – Isaac's Elixir Conf 2021 Presentation about Zig</li> <li><a href="https://julialang.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://julialang.org/</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/</a></li> <li><a href="https://llvm.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://llvm.org/</a></li> <li><a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://gcc.gnu.org/</a></li> <li><a href="https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replacement-gcc-clang.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replacement-gcc-clang.html</a></li> <li><a href="https://gohugo.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://gohugo.io/</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.openapis.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.openapis.org/</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apiarist" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apiarist</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/ityonemo/exonerate" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/ityonemo/exonerate</a></li> <li><a href="https://hexdocs.pm/exonerate/Exonerate.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://hexdocs.pm/exonerate/Exonerate.html</a></li> </ul> Guest Information <ul> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/DNAutics" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/DNAutics</a> – on Twitter</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/ityonemo/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/ityonemo/</a> – on Github</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCarZZW7eavljSdGRQx9kkSA/featured" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCarZZW7eavljSdGRQx9kkSA/featured</a> – Isaac's YouTube channel</li> </ul> Find us online <ul> <li>Message the show - <a href="https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@ThinkingElixir</a></li> <li>Email the show - <a href="mailto:show@thinkingelixir.com" rel="nofollow">show@thinkingelixir.com</a></li> <li>Mark Ericksen - <a href="https://twitter.com/brainlid" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@brainlid</a></li> <li>David Bernheisel - <a href="https://twitter.com/bernheisel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@bernheisel</a></li> <li>Cade Ward - <a href="https://twitter.com/cadebward" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@cadebward</a></li> </ul>Sponsored By:<ul><li><a href="https://fly.io" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fly.io</a>: <a href="https://fly.io" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fly.io is a great place to deploy your next Phoenix application! Check them out!</a></li></ul>

83: Zig and Zigler with Isaac Yonemoto

While NIFs provide a great way to interface with native code in the BEAM machine, the process can also be rather error-prone. Thankfully, since Isaac Yonemoto built Zigler, things have become a lot simpler, and he joins us today to talk about how. Isaac is an Elixir developer with a background in biotech and we kick off the discussion by hearing about his journey into programming and some of the ways that he has combined it with science. From there we hear more about the different languages Isaac has worked in and why he fell in love with Elixir, where he talks about its encouragement of test-driven development and how this has made him a better programmer. We dive right into the contributions Isaac is making to the Elixir community next, and he starts off by talking about Zigler. He explains how Zigler provides a bridge between Zig and Elixir that makes it far easier to build NIFs. We hear a bunch of the other cool possibilities that Zigler offers to Elixir as well, including its ability to make debugging easier by appending the Zig stack trace to the Elixir one. After hearing Isaac’s opinion of magic in Elixir, we close today's show off with a few of the other projects he is working on, contributions that are bound to make the world of Elixir even more exciting! Key Points From This Episode:  Isaac’s early exposure to programming and how he got started in tech. The education Isaac had in the sciences and his experience in the biotech sphere. Difficulties with installing Ruby and how this led to Isaac learning Elixir. Support for asynchronous testing and the reasons why Isaac finds joy in Elixir. The emphasis on test-driven development in Elixir and how this has made Isaac a better programmer. Isaac’s experiences with Zig and the similarities between it and Elixir. How NIFs allow C code in Elixir and what it is like debugging them. Isaac’s Zigler project and how it provides integration between Elixir and Zig making it easy to build NIFs. Cross-compiling C using Zig and why Isaac built a disassembler. Aspects of the BEAM that make it harder to write NIFs in Elixir than in Julia. Isaac’s opinion of magic in programming and how it should always be comprehensible. Final plugs from Isaac: where to find Zigler, and some upcoming projects.  Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: SmartLogic — https://smartlogic.io/  Isaac Yonemoto on Twitter — https://twitter.com/DNAutics Isaac Yonemoto on GitHub — https://github.com/ityonemo Isaac Yonemoto on YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCarZZW7eavljSdGRQx9kkSA Selectrix — https://github.com/ityonemo/selectrix Mavis — https://github.com/ityonemo/mavis Chiaroscuro - https://github.com/ityonemo/chiaroscuro Zigler - https://hexdocs.pm/zigler/Zig.html Zigler on GitHub — https://github.com/ityonemo/zigler Julia — https://julialang.org/ Testing Elixir with Jeffrey Matthias and Andrea Leopardi — https://smartlogic.io/podcast/elixir-wizards/s6e6-matthias-leopardi/Special Guest: Isaac Yonemoto.

While NIFs provide a great way to interface with native code in the BEAM machine, the process can also be rather error-prone. Thankfully, since Isaac Yonemoto built Zigler, things have become a lot simpler, and he joins us today to talk about how. Isaac is an Elixir developer with a background in biotech and we kick off the discussion by hearing about his journey into programming and some of the ways that he has combined it with science. From there we hear more about the different languages Isaac has worked in and why he fell in love with Elixir, where he talks about its encouragement of test-driven development and how this has made him a better programmer. We dive right into the contributions Isaac is making to the Elixir community next, and he starts off by talking about Zigler. He explains how Zigler provides a bridge between Zig and Elixir that makes it far easier to build NIFs. We hear a bunch of the other cool possibilities that Zigler offers to Elixir as well, including its ability to make debugging easier by appending the Zig stack trace to the Elixir one. After hearing Isaac’s opinion of magic in Elixir, we close today's show off with a few of the other projects he is working on, contributions that are bound to make the world of Elixir even more exciting! Key Points From This Episode: <ul> <li>Isaac’s early exposure to programming and how he got started in tech.</li> <li>The education Isaac had in the sciences and his experience in the biotech sphere.</li> <li>Difficulties with installing Ruby and how this led to Isaac learning Elixir.</li> <li>Support for asynchronous testing and the reasons why Isaac finds joy in Elixir.</li> <li>The emphasis on test-driven development in Elixir and how this has made Isaac a better programmer.</li> <li>Isaac’s experiences with Zig and the similarities between it and Elixir.</li> <li>How NIFs allow C code in Elixir and what it is like debugging them.</li> <li>Isaac’s Zigler project and how it provides integration between Elixir and Zig making it easy to build NIFs.</li> <li>Cross-compiling C using Zig and why Isaac built a disassembler.</li> <li>Aspects of the BEAM that make it harder to write NIFs in Elixir than in Julia.</li> <li>Isaac’s opinion of magic in programming and how it should always be comprehensible.</li> <li>Final plugs from Isaac: where to find Zigler, and some upcoming projects.</li> </ul> Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: SmartLogic — <a href="https://smartlogic.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://smartlogic.io/</a> Isaac Yonemoto on Twitter — <a href="https://twitter.com/DNAutics" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/DNAutics</a> Isaac Yonemoto on GitHub — <a href="https://github.com/ityonemo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/ityonemo</a> Isaac Yonemoto on YouTube — <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCarZZW7eavljSdGRQx9kkSA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCarZZW7eavljSdGRQx9kkSA</a> Selectrix — <a href="https://github.com/ityonemo/selectrix" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/ityonemo/selectrix</a> Mavis — <a href="https://github.com/ityonemo/mavis" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/ityonemo/mavis</a> Chiaroscuro - <a href="https://github.com/ityonemo/chiaroscuro" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/ityonemo/chiaroscuro</a> Zigler - <a href="https://hexdocs.pm/zigler/Zig.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://hexdocs.pm/zigler/Zig.html</a> Zigler on GitHub — <a href="https://github.com/ityonemo/zigler" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/ityonemo/zigler</a> Julia — <a href="https://julialang.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://julialang.org/</a> Testing Elixir with Jeffrey Matthias and Andrea Leopardi — <a href="https://smartlogic.io/podcast/elixir-wizards/s6e6-matthias-leopardi/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://smartlogic.io/podcast/elixir-wizards/s6e6-matthias-leopardi/</a>Special Guest: Isaac Yonemoto.

The Bridge Between Elixir and Zig with Isaac Yonemoto