magnetissimo

My Elixir/Phoenix project Magnetissimo. When KickassTorrents died, I thought I should just build my own crawler and be done with it. Elixir's OTP was a fantastic fit, I scrape stuff really quickly with minimal orchestration code. There are bugs here and there, and I haven't had time to circle back and patch a lot of the issues I noticed, but it "works". I'm proud of it because it broke the 200 star barrier on my Github profile. With Elixir to boot! I love this language. https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo

Hey thanks for the offer. I wrote an open source Elixir application called Magnetissimo. It goes all over the internet, finds torrents and indexes them in a simple to use UI with one-click download links. Elixir was paramount for this project's simplicity. I leveraged GenServer and the BEAM VM to effortlessly created different crawl queues that utilize all the cpu's cores to maximize throughput. It's really really fast. The idea is that anyone can clone the project, run it, and get upwards of 400+ torrents indexed per second immediately. Your own personal kickasstorrents. Or host one for your friends and family. Would love to add a logo to the project. - Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/B9OFxTx.png - Github: https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo - License: MIT

The author is quite correct. Go is super boring, and runs fast. Two great points for it. For me however I just never felt happy writing Go code. I have a couple of open source projects with it, so I have put it through it's initial paces to see if we fit. The language that did make me happy was Elixir. Everything about the language and the surrounding tooling is polished. You end up with significantly less lines of code that's easy to understand. Here's just one example from me - both examples scrape some info from HTML: Elixir: https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo/blob/master/lib/... Go: https://github.com/sergiotapia/gophers/blob/master/scrape.go... You tell me which one is nicer to look at and easier to understand.