Kùzu NIF for Elixir

Elixir is a programming language based on the BEAM virtual environment. Its functional style, strong community, Erlang compatibility and concurrency-friendly features, like preemptive scheduling and spawning a large number of process without incurring much overhead, make it a popular choice among developers for building full-stack applications.

Kùzu NIF for Elixir The NIF package is maintained as an independent, external open source project.

In Elixir, a NIF (Native Implemented Function) is a function written in a native language (in this case, Rust) that can be called directly from Elixir code, allowing developers to leverage high-performance, low-level operations within their Elixir applications, essentially providing a way to extend the functionality of the Erlang BEAM virtual machine by executing code outside of its standard runtime environment.

If you build applications in Elixir, you can access the NIF package using the instructions shown here, based on the NIF package that adapts Kùzu’s officially supported Rust crate to Elixir.