Elixir for game development

[OvermindDL1]

@ovidiubadita

Hey all,
I discovered Elixir and I love it. I always wanted to learn a functional programming and I intended to go for Haskell, but after discovering Elixir, I think I will spend a lot of time learning it well. For web development seems to be a great tool.

This is just out of curiosity, more than a practical question, but I want to understand the limits of this technology.

Can you make games in Elixir and deploy them on client systems?

I know it works in Erlang Vm, but I suppose the VM can also be installed on the client. But can Elixir render rich graphical content and use graphical resource?

The BEAM rules on servers, not clients, I would not recommend building a visual client on the BEAM.

You ‘can’, but I’d not recommend it.

@NobbZ

And at the end of the post, I do remember, that @Qqwy or @OvermindDL1 planned to make a GUI package on top of a FRP-framework he build himself, but I’m not sure who of those two…

@Qqwy was building an FRP in Elixir, I already built one in OCaml->Javascript. ^.^

@aseigo

There is also a QtQuick bridge that would be pure awesome if it works well. I haven’t had time / motivation to try it out yet, but QtQuick is a declarative UI system that is absolutely fantastic (ok, I am biased: I worked at the company that made it, and was involved with its evolution in the first several years) .. it’s like what HTML5 should have been

Ooo, QtQuick is a good idea, I’ve use QML and it is indeed awesome.

@ovidiubadita

Thank you for the answers. It helps being able to have a view of what you can and can not do with a thing you plan to learn. So far, I love Elixir, and plan to learn as much and as fast as I can. I will focus on web development, as I already do at this point in PHP and JS. The reason I asked is because I hope one day I will be able to build apps that do not need a browser to run. But is clear that I have a lot to learn until then. Maybe by then, the ecosystem will have more tools. At this point I don’t feel that confident to be the one to make any of them.

If you want a web client, well Elixir makes a dang fine server for that. ^.^

@kokolegorille

If You know JS already You can try Electron to build application with it.

Guh, I hate Electron, nothing eats more resources on my system then loading any Electron app… >.>