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Elixir vs Photon Engine

A side-by-side look at Elixir and Photon Engine. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Elixir

Elixir

Development

Elixir is a modern, functional, concurrent programming language built on top of the Erlang VM. It takes advantages of Erlang's rock-solid fault-tolerance and scalability while also introducing cleaner and more maintainable syntax. Elixir is well-suited for building distributed, fault-tolerant applications.

functionalconcurrentfaulttolerantscalabledistributed
Photon Engine

Photon Engine

Gaming Software

Photon Engine is a proprietary multiplayer game development platform that provides a real-time multiplayer game backend and networking engine. It handles hosting, networking, matchmaking, lag compensation and has out-of-the-box support for different platforms.

multiplayernetworkingrealtimegame-backendmatchmakinglag-compensationcrossplatform