wise zephyr
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Looks like the possibilities for embedding Gleam in LiveBook are open, but I guess we should to embed first the compiler inside of Rustler, right?
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keen night
Would be a lot more than just embedding it in Rustler
wise zephyr
yes, of course, it's not going to be as easy as that
I speak from ignorance, but after getting the compiler and lsp, maybe next step could be a BEAM embedded compiler 🙂
keen night
I think it would be an extreme amount of work for not much of a benefit
Being able to run the compiler inside the BEAM doesn't put you much closer to being able to implement livebook
stiff gull
Since spawnfest is coming up, could this be a nice project to pick? Hasn't anyone tried it and/or has ideas/comments on what's needed, if it's feasible etc...
keen night
I think this project would take many months to deliver
And I think it would involve a large redesign of the compiler to enable new expressions to be analysed and compiled in the context of some already evaluated state
Hmm or maybe the existing design could remain but a new API be inserted into the side of analyser that largely only uses the expression typer
stiff gull
Shoot, too bad 😅
exotic violet
is livebook like jupyter but for elixir?
keen night
Pretty much
It's better in some ways
The state in them is always reproducable as the cells can't be run out of order
floral salmon
Would be a lot more than just embedding it in Rustler
Is that necessary? You could just have gleam as the man in the middle (compiler in the middle) between livebook server and client
Or maybe we could just wrap livebook sever
And I think we could cache the previously compiled code so we could run it before the current code to reach the proper state
keen night
A NIF isn’t necessarily, nope. Lots of ways to get Elixir and the compiler talking.
