Now that's neat. The Beam VM sounds like a natural fit for a torrent tracker

Now this is serious business, congrats on the project! I can see how this is perfect fit for elixir...

Hey congrats on the launch! Can you provide any details on how it runs compared to opentracker? I'm really interested in the performance etc.

Really cool! You looking to write Elixir as your main job?

Very cool! Is this suitable for using as a private tracker?

Awesome work!

Love Elixir so much, building a kick-ass notification engine with it now. Its so so good.

really cool project! well done

Well done. Couple quick notes, move to a logger instead of using IO.puts. Also consider adding OTel.

There's something about C++ developers that makes them love Go and Elixir (and I include myself in this demographic). I think it's something about the people who are attracted to C++ for performance are attracted to Go/Elixir for its multithreaded performance. Really cool project

- how did you start - did you refer to other projects - how long did it take - how much functionality do you think works compared to say qbittorrent?

I tried it, couldn't get HTTPS to work.

Also my console gets spammed with:

04:43:20.160 [warning] invalid 'event' parameter: size: 6 value: "paused"

but it seems to work. I would've liked to see HTTP stats too but I guess UDP is fine (though I have it disabled)

I really wished to see an OTP-first design. Unfortunately for me, the code is almost procedural as it's touching ETS or Application, which is built on ETS, in nearly every operation.

If the author wishes to learn how to design services in Elixir, or any BEAM language, with OTP, they can take a look at "Designing Elixir Systems with OTP" by by James Edward Gray and Bruce Tate, and "Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix" by Lance Halvorsen.

Trackers are not relics - they're used exclusively in private tracker websites. Public-access torrents would more commonly use DHT and PEX for discovery.

Could you please clarify what DHT and PEX are? I'm having trouble searching "tracker PEX".

learned elixir in a week for an interview. didn’t clear it, but that week changed how i write code. understood state isolation for the first time. no shared data. fail and restart clean. pattern matching everywhere. structs over classes. pipes for everything. after that, i started writing code topdown. move sideeffects out. keep logic close to the data. elixir kinda rewired that for me.

after seeing this i saw that same mindset. not flashing any big genservers. simplified with fast procs, raw ETS tables. simple flow, but still fault aware. still clean.