Why? What? Who? How?

[nelsonic]

This is a placeholder repo for capturing learning of TigerBeetle. 🪲

Been looking at this for a couple of years: dwyl/technology-stack#112
Trying to decide if we should write this tutorial in Elixir, Go or Zig dwyl/learn-zig#1
There is a first party client for Go: https://github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle/tree/main/src/clients
Whereas I don't there will be a first party client for Elixir it's just not a priority for them. 🤷‍♂️
There's a good Elixir client: https://github.com/rbino/tigerbeetlex
Which is referenced in the Docs: https://github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle/blob/main/docs/COMMUNITY_PROJECTS.md
The combination of "let it crash" fault-tolerance in Elixir and Tigerbeetle could actually be awesome!
But concerned that the people using Tigerbeetle (financial institutions) won't be "comfortable" using a dynamically typed language that doesn't have "strong" numerical types ... 💭
This could be a good opportunity to give a basic intro to Nx: https://github.com/elixir-nx
Or just build it in Go ...

@LuchoTurtle thoughts?

(obvs this is not a priority right now, as we have lots of other work to be doing! but just to think about for a few mins ...)

[nelsonic]

https://docs.tigerbeetle.com/quick-start

ref: rbino/tigerbeetlex#40

[LuchoTurtle]

Seeing your enthusiasm with Tigerbeetle is contagious. Having already made some comments over at dwyl/technology-stack#112 (comment)), I'd be interested in seeing this developed.

I agree, https://github.com/rbino/tigerbeetlex looks awesome. But if we can do it better in Elixir while learning Tigerbeetle, is a double-win, in my books!

Looking forward in seeing your documented opinion on this 💭