I need the communities assistance to make some rather difficult choices. I have been given the assignment to research the best tools for a very large eCommerce venture. My number 1. principal is to keep costs way way down. I other words I cannot go and get an off-the-shelf solution; no Oracle, no …

Honestly for something maintainable over a huge period of time I’d opt for something stronger typed than elixir or go or so. Scala isn’t bad for that, better than kotlin, but for working with money and the detail you need with that then I’d not opt for it either. Something like COBOL actually isn’…

[image] OvermindDL1: Scala isn’t bad for that, better than kotlin, I know nothing about Scala, (I tend to stay away from the Java-related ecosystem, only Kotlin took my interest), so yeah, it may be a good fit for this. Totally agree with everything you said about Rust, it’s such a great lan…

[image] adrianrl: As a game development aficionado, I didn’t see anything relevant in the ecosystem, on the other hand C++ has Godot and Unreal, two mature and stable game engines. There are actually a lot of building game engine libraries and full frameworks building up in Rust. There only …

Here’s also a tutorial on how to get started with web development in Rust: A Basic Web Application with Rust and Actix-web - zupzup It uses actix-web which is the fastest web framework available today. actix also uses an actor model.

As a person who used to contribute to Solidus, I HIGHLY recommend it. It’s very well looked after and lots of major ecommerce companies use it. It uses Ruby instead of Elixir though.

Wooo, never heard about the bindings of Unreal Engine, I may take a look then, since my knowledge of C++ is very limited. There’s a great talk of what Blizzard thinks about adopting Rust: [Checking under the hood with Blizzard Engineers pt1] (It seems like some people at Blizzard uses …

From reading the requirements what jumps out at me if that it is required to last for 30 years, so I would think carefully about what technology is going to last that long. The Java ecosystem has enough momentum for that, is currently very mature, and is not difficult to hire for, so I would be ser…

[image] Sammis: So it looks like we are going to have to build it from scratch. There’s shopify? Unless there is something I’m missing here or you want more control. It’s super easy to set up and running and you can move to build something custom when you need to or do that while shopify is r…

[image] OvermindDL1: Scala isn’t bad for that, better than kotlin, but for working with money and the detail you need with that then I’d not opt for it either. For what it’s worth, I write Scala for a hedge fund as my job. I find it’s actually really good precisely for modelling all sorts of …

Well, Erlang has been around for 30 years already. But in Erlang/Elixir you’ll end up writing almost everything from scratch. There were efforts and ideas about it but let’s be real: without real funding and somebody’s livelihood depending on coding that, nothing will happen. We all have jobs to do…

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Sammis April 11, 2019, 11:10am 15

I like what you saying. Very pragmatic. Thanks