I find myself in violent agreement with NobbZ statement “trusting those external inputs to not spill my atom table, monitored or not, is out of the question.” I also wonder how many Elixir libraries (to say nothing of app-specific modules) are trusting external inputs not to crash the BEAM.
One of the most pleasant things about Elixir is that we don’t have to worry about all of the pitfalls introduced by thread programming. However, it strikes me that there may be a set of Elixir-specific pitfalls. Is there a “best practices” document that lays out potentially unsafe coding practices of this sort? If not, perhaps some of the smarter folks on the list could create one…
-r
