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24 alternatives to Burrito v1.0.0 – Wrap Elixir Apps into Standalone Binaries

Burrito has been in development for a long time, but just last night (PST) I finally gathered the confidence to push the project to Hex.pm (Elixir's official package manager) so everyone can easily use it. Burrito is a Mix release tool that allows you to wrap your entire Elixir based application (including the Erlang VM runtime) into a single-file, standalone executable for MacOS, Linux, and Windows. It currently utilizes Zig to build a cross-platform wrapper around a self-extracting payload. Burrito will grab pre-built Erlang VM builds from a build server I operate…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Burrito v1.0.0 – Wrap Elixir Apps into Standalone Binaries launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Burrito: An embeddable QuickJS wrapper written in Nim▲7
Just shipped Burrito, a QuickJS wrapper for Nim that lets you embed a full JS REPL in your Nim apps. Call JS from Nim (and vice versa), run interactively, and more. Built in a weekend (mostly on my phone) - code, docs, tests, and a landing page all included!
2025 · tapsterbot.github.io · its alternatives →
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I wrote a new BitTorrent tracker in Elixir▲394
Hello everyone! I'm currently in a journey to learn and improve my Elixir and Go skills (my daily job uses C++) and looking through my backlog for projects to take on I decided Elixir is the perfect language to write a highly-parallel BitTorrent tracker. So I have spent my free time these last 3 months writing one! Now I think it has enough features to present it to the world (and a docker image to give it a quick try). I know some people see trackers as relics of the past now that DHT and PEX are common but I think they still serve a purpose in today's Internet (purely talking about public…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Brioche – A new Nix-like package manager▲168
This is a project I've wanted to write for a long time now. I really love the ideas from Nix and I still have a ton of respect for the project, but Nix-the-language never felt intuitive to me and I wanted something with more approachable tooling (although this was circa 2016, so I'm sure Nix has improved a lot since then too-- that was before Flakes were around!) Anyway, I started on the current iteration of Brioche about 6 months ago, and I finally cut an initial release. I'd still consider this a "technical preview" version (performance especially is pretty painful, so that'll be a focus…
2024 · brioche.dev · its alternatives →
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BURRITO AF▲101
A compass to your next burrito. 🌯
2016 · its alternatives →
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tea▲293
The Homebrew replacement from the maker of Homebrew
2023 · tea.xyz · its alternatives →
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Burr – A framework for building and debugging GenAI apps faster▲94
Hey HN, we're developing Burr (github.com/dagworks-inc/burr), an open-source python framework that makes it easier to build and debug GenAI applications. Burr is a lightweight library that can integrate with your favorite tools and comes with a debugging UI. If you prefer a video introduction, you can watch me build a chatbot here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEZ4oDN0GdU. Common friction points we’ve seen with GenAI applications include logically modeling application flow, debugging and recreating error cases, and curating data for testing/evaluation (see…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Jido 2.0, Elixir Agent Framework▲323
Hi HN! I'm the author of an Elixir Agent Framework called Jido. We reached our 2.0 release this week, shipping a production-hardened framework to build, manage and run Agents on the BEAM. Jido now supports a host of Agentic features, including: - Tool Calling and Agent Skills - Comprehensive multi-agent support across distributed BEAM processes with Supervision - Multiple reasoning strategies including ReAct, Chain of Thought, Tree of Thought, and more - Advanced workflow capabilities - Durability through a robust Storage and Persistence layer - Agentic Memory - MCP and Sensors to interface…
Mar 2026 · jido.run · its alternatives →
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Keep – GitHub Actions for your monitoring tools▲181
Hi Hacker News! Shahar and Tal from Keep here. A few months ago, we introduced here at HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34806482) Keep as an “open source alerting CLI” and got some interesting feedback - mainly around UI, automation, and supporting more tools. We were VERY early back then, and we understood that although the current DX around creating alerts is not great, it's not that critical and developers don’t need another tool just for that. But we did find something else. While talking to developers and devops, we found that a lot of companies use many tools…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A Travis CI Elixir client▲50
Simple Elixir wrapper for the Travis API. Contribute to kddnewton/travis.ex development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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BiTE – Cross-platform executable viewer and reverse engineering tool▲176
Hey everyone! I’m excited to share a project I’ve been working on throughout my university studies. It’s called BiTE (https://github.com/WINSDK/bite) and it's a tool primarily focused on being an executable viewer with reverse engineering capabilities. BiTE supports Windows, MacOS, and Linux, along with their associated executable formats. It’s also capable of parsing and displaying debug information using DWARF/PDB formats, which I hope will be useful even for just comparing codegen. I’ve put a lot of effort into this and it's the first time I'm releasing something…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Buckaroo – A decentralized C++ package manager▲55
The decentralized package manager for C++ and friends 🏝️ - LoopPerfect/buckaroo
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Wget-finder▲130
Since some days ago I’ve been playing with bifrost-build, a github repository with recipes for building static linux binaries. The recipes are no different from other linux distributions where an…
2015 · javier.io · its alternatives →
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Scapefree tier, from $9.99/mo▲59
Hey HN, we've been using Claude Code daily for months, and built Scape to fix our biggest pain point: managing multiple worktrees quickly & reducing the mental load of switching between them quickly. What we built: Scape is a macOS menu bar app that sits on top of Claude Code and gives you: - One-click worktrees: click a button, get a new git worktree with a Claude session already working on it. Develop in parallel without leaving your current branch. - Toolkit: per-session actions like "Create PR", "Commit & Push", "Run & Fix Tests." Add your own with bash scripts or prompts. -…
24d ago · scape.work · its alternatives →
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MashuPack▲112
Turn codebases into a clean file for Claude and ChatGPT
May 2026 · mashupack.com · its alternatives →
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Simple in-memory key/value store written in Elixir using Shards▲80
Simple in-memory Key/Value Store written in Elixir using `cabol/ex_shards` - cabol/kvx
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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MegaMaker - EP05 - Put a little maple syrup in it▲69
A burrito descends on a small town in BC, Canada.
2016 · megamaker-f57f087d.simplecast.com · its alternatives →
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BBC Good Food Scraper in Go▲92
Being a scraper to save a BBC good food recipe. Contribute to sleepypikachu/still-good-food development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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JuxtaCode – native Git diff tool for macOS▲19
I wanted to make a native Git diff tool that works "stand-alone" in the sense that you just need to point it at a repository and then you can select commits to compare and open files in a 3-way-merge tool. I've been finding it useful to have one app I can quickly switch to for comparing branches and sorting out merge conflicts.
2023 · juxtacode.app · its alternatives →
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Burrito Baton▲9
Crowdsourced Burrito Creation & Delivery
2018 · its alternatives →
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Gonzo – A Go-based TUI for log analysis (OpenTelemetry/OTLP support)▲74
We built Gonzo to make log analysis faster and friendlier in the terminal. Think of it like k9s for logs — a TUI that can ingest JSON, text, or OpenTelemetry (OTLP) logs, highlight and boil up patterns, and even run AI models locally or via API to summarize logs. We’re still iterating, so ideas and contributions are welcome!
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Run Elixir code in your browser▲15
2015 · play.elixirbyexample.com · its alternatives →
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Tai, composable, real time, data & trade execution toolkit [Elixir]▲9
A composable, real time, market data and trade execution toolkit. Built with Elixir, runs on the Erlang virtual machine - fremantle-industries/tai
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open-source in-browser code editor/executor with REPL, 10+ languages▲29
I am super excited to open-source the code executor behind logicboard.com - an in-browser collaborative code editor. The backend is written in Elixir+Phoenix and implements a WebSocket API to execute code in docker containers. Next steps include making this more secure, I am considering Google's gVisor to implement better isolation between containers and the host kernel.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Ketchup – Open-Source CMS in Go and Typescript▲29
A simple CMS :tomato:. Contribute to ketchuphq/ketchup development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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