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title: "X-Plane / Laminar Research and Elixir · Elixir Community"
description: "An Elixir multiplayer server connects flight-simulation sessions over UDP."
url: https://elixir.community/companies/x-plane-laminar-research/
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X-Plane / Laminar Research

# X-Plane / Laminar Research

An Elixir multiplayer server connects flight-simulation sessions over UDP.

## How X-Plane / Laminar Research uses Elixir

Laminar Research chose Elixir for X-Plane’s multiplayer server, looking for fault tolerance and predictable latency. Engineer Tyler Young first tried the language on a smaller weather-service proxy before building the multiplayer system.

The implementation brought the UDP-based RakNet protocol to Elixir. Mapping connections to isolated BEAM processes let the server use concurrency without making each connection depend on the health of every other one.

Industry

Flight simulation

Website

[x-plane.com](https://www.x-plane.com)

## Further reading

-   [Elixir blog case study](https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2021/07/29/bootstraping-a-multiplayer-server-with-elixir-at-x-plane/)