Discussion on Lumen Project and Its Performance Implications

In this episode, Paul Schoenfelder and Hans Elias Josephsen from DockYard discuss their work on the Lumen project. Lumen is designed to enable Elixir to run in the browser through WebAssembly, maintaining the language's semantics. They cover various aspects like the data flow in Elixir writing, compiler, interpreter, and runtime functions. The discussion includes the steps taken to develop Lumen from scratch, the performance concerns encountered, and the reasons for choosing Rust as the programming language. They also talk about the expected release timeframe for Lumen and the relevance of code size in WebAssembly.