Comments on: Have You Heard the Good News About Elixir?

By: Tyler Young

Tyler Young — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 11:55:23 +0000

In reply to Kevin Ashton. Sorry, I’m not at liberty to divulge those numbers. Let’s just say it’s more than a hobby project, less than Facebook. ;)

By: Kevin Ashton

Kevin Ashton — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 09:37:02 +0000

This is a great article. Out of curiosity how many monthly active users does mobile currently have? And when X-Plane desktop gets this functionality, how many users do you think it would grow to?

By: jim zane

jim zane — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 20:28:07 +0000

In reply to Tyler Young. You're such a tease… :-)

By: Tyler Young

Tyler Young — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 18:59:22 +0000

In reply to jim zane. Looking into it. :)

By: jim zane

jim zane — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 07:39:06 +0000

It’s nice to see multiplayer getting some love, I’ve only been advocating it for many years now? 🙂 Now for the $64 question, is this technology going to trickle down to the installed PC base? Or is this a mmo environment only for mobile? And will it scale so that individuals can run their own servers? I understand what you’re trying to do and I commend you guys for doing it. It’s long overdue. But what we’ve been looking for, for so many years now is a system similar to what DCS uses where multiplayer servers can be installed and run via TCP on local machines. So where do we see this going forward as far as X-plane?

By: quantumac

quantumac — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 02:04:32 +0000

In reply to Tyler Young. And open source encourages open source developers to create open source goodies for your platform, irrespective of whether or not they want to be paid to do so! Laminar Research's support for Linux is why I create things for X-Plane.

By: Tyler Young

Tyler Young — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 01:00:55 +0000

In reply to Victor. Elixir’s strength is in being “really, really” safe and “really, really” parallel. The MMO server, at its core, is a bunch of memcpys and a few queries of spatial data structures. :)

By: Victor

Victor — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 00:57:40 +0000

In reply to xplanefan.

elixir is much slower than C or Rust, around 3-6 times slower than Go
Generally, after reading how fast it is I was really disappointed by how slow it was.
So if you plan number crunching – that won’t be the right choice. But for something like a game engine – I guess it is a perfect fit.

By: Tyler Young

Tyler Young — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 16:37:11 +0000

In reply to saar.

In general, we like open sourcing stuff that isn’t core to our business model (our “special sauce,” so to speak). Since RakNet is already open source, any competitors could already use it if they were so inclined. Considering the RakNet implementation was built on top of open source (both by referring to the RakNet source itself, and various implementations in other languages that people had been so kind as to publish), it seemed like the decent thing to do.

(From a purely selfish perspective, it’s good marketing for us, and open source helps attract devs when it comes time to hire.)

By: saar

saar — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 16:10:19 +0000

Out of curiosity, why did you release the RakNet code you worked so hard ?
From my end this is really interesting staff but from a company with lots of competition how this adds up ?