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== Problem statement==
== Problem statement==
Unfortunately, there's no BEAM (Elixir- and Erlang-compatible) library for reading bzip2 files, so the options are either to fetch and run the data through an external process and bidirectional pipes, or write a new library.
Unfortunately, there was no BEAM (Elixir- and Erlang-compatible) library for reading bzip2 files, so we could either fetch and decompress the data externally through an separate process, or write a new library.


How hard could it be to write a binding...
How hard could it be to write a binding...