Use Elixir to create the next Wordpress?

[LostKobrakai]

@sb8244

You could totally build a drop-in plugin system in Elixir, although it would be much more involved because you’d need to compile the plugins and add the compiled source to the application. The code_server process can handle this dynamically, I believe. Then questions like, what would prevent a plugin from overwriting an existing module? The security can of worms is big on this project.

I’m curious why you think PHP is uniquely positioned for such a system? By my understanding PHP has exactly the same issues. Sure there’s compilation, but the beam and elixir have quite nice api around doing that even at runtime. The statefulness of the system means you need to be a bit more diligent with unloading stuff compared to the “load everything from scratch each request” in PHP, but other than that I don’t really see a big difference.