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X-Plane Developer
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X-Plane Developer is the company blog at developer.x-plane.com, writing about games and programming. Since 2014, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Have You Heard the Good News About Elixir?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The developer blog of the X-Plane flight simulator, covering flight model updates, the choice of Elixir for its multiplayer server, and deep dives into aircraft modelling. Commenters cite posts as sources; none judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Have You Heard the Good News About Elixir?4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-01-20
- X-Plane 12 Flight Model Update – Supersonic Transition, Delta Wings and Mass3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-06-21
- /2022/05/x-plane-12-development-update-may-19-2022/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-22
What Hacker News says?
Yep! I was actually the sole dev working on it, both server- and client-side. I'm working on a post for our public dev blog talking about why I chose Elixir and what my experience has been. It'll eventually be available here: https://developer.x-plane.com/blog/
Comment linking /blog/
on “10 years-ish of Elixir”Submitted X-Plane 12 Flight Model Update – Supersonic Transition, Delta Wings and Mass as a story · 275 points
HN discussionAt some point X-Plane 12 will go on sale in early access, and Laminar said it will include an X-Plane 11 license (because 12 might be still pretty broken while in EA, so in the meantime you can enjoy 11) - source https://developer.x-plane.com/2022/05/x-plane-12-development... So if you wait for Early Access you will get both 12 and 11 for the price of one. After that, all minor 12.x updates will be free (they always…
Comment linking /2022/05/x-plane-12-development-update-may-19-2022/
on “X-Plane 12 Flight Model Update – Supersonic Transition, Delta Wings and Mass”Submitted Have You Heard the Good News About Elixir? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionhttps://developer.x-plane.com/2018/05/better-fuselages-throu... his take on fuselage
Comment linking /2018/05/better-fuselages-through-science/
on “X-Plane 12 Flight Model Update – Supersonic Transition, Delta Wings and Mass”Submitted Why Apple Before Android? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThis post on our dev blog gives some detail on the language decision here: https://developer.x-plane.com/2021/01/have-you-heard-the-goo...
Comment linking /2021/01/have-you-heard-the-good-news-about-elixir/
on “Bootstrapping a multiplayer server with Elixir”Submitted Have You Heard the Good News About Elixir? - X-Plane Developer Blog as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI'm not knowledgeable enough to tell if there are answers there, but some of these questions might be addressed in the deep dive of the F-4 Phantom modelization. https://developer.x-plane.com/2022/02/x-plane-12-flight-mode...
Comment linking /2022/02/x-plane-12-flight-model-update-supersonic-transition-delta-wings-and-mass-properties/
on “How X-Plane Works”Submitted Have You Heard the Good News About Elixir? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHmm odd, not sure then. I'll take it, if it's not being used ;) I had a look on where I read about the X-Plane 11 keys during the beta, it's here - https://developer.x-plane.com/2022/05/x-plane-12-development...
Comment linking /2022/05/x-plane-12-development-update-may-19-2022/
on “X-Plane 12 Early Access”Submitted Elixir Powers X-Plane Mobile’s MMO Server as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHere's a great example of why the flight model is... lacking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GX9lTvKuqU It's perfectly fine for most things, but _really_ bad with things that could actually kill you. Meanwhile, in X-Plane land: https://developer.x-plane.com/2022/02/x-plane-12-flight-mode...
Comment linking /2022/02/x-plane-12-flight-model-update-supersonic-transition-delta-wings-and-mass-properties/
on “X-Plane 12 Early Access”Submitted X-Plane 11.50 Is Here as a story · 3 points
HN discussionCould it output drones for existing sims? X-Plane Plane Maker: https://developer.x-plane.com/manuals/planemaker/ Juno: New Origins (and also Hello Engineer) MS Flight Simulator cockpits are built with MSFS Avionics Framework which is React-based: https://docs.flightsimulator.com/html/Introduction/SDK_Overv... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37619564 : > [Multi-objective gym + MuJoCo] for drone simulation > Idea…
Comment linking /manuals/planemaker/
on “Show HN: I wrote a multicopter simulation library in Python”Submitted X-Plane 11.50 Public Beta 1: Vulkan and Metal Are Here as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted X-Plane 12 Flight Model Report as a story · 2 points
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