Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-10
Batata, an Elixir-to-native compiler you can inspect
Batata is an experimental compiler that lowers a practical slice of Elixir through MLIR and LLVM into native code, with a Zig runtime.
Why it surfacedThe site makes the whole pipeline legible, from Elixir syntax through its ex dialect and LLVM representation to a native artifact. It is unusually candid about its boundaries: JIT execution and AOT archives work, while full Elixir semantics, OTP compatibility, and stable package installation remain explicitly unfinished.
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Ham Is Specifically Discouraged
August 10’s newborn domains include a mock cryptid council that specifically discourages ham, a vintage phone collecting messages for Twyla’s 70th, a 4.5-meter dish measuring Galactic hydrogen at 1420 MHz, and an open index that found 530 sites permitting GPTBot in robots.txt while refusing it at the server.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-10 Domain Arrivals issue.