alt Hacker NewsFor me, Elixir misses the mark. If you're an unc with a background in Ruby or that era of webdev, I can see the appeal. It's a familiar set dressing. I don't have that background, I much prefer the syntactic structure of Erlang's psuedo-horn clauses. Both for similar familiarity reasons (I knew Prolog before I touched Erlang), as well as a general preference for the simplicity.
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scrame • today at 2:40 AM
> If you're an unc with a background in Ruby or that era of webdev
"claude, run 'npm install' for me"
uncircle • yesterday at 4:29 PM
The similarity of Ruby and Elixir is only extremely superficial and betrays your lack of familiarity with the language.
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foldr • yesterday at 5:47 PM
Phoenix is a big part of the appeal of Elixir, independently of the differences between Elixir and Erlang.
> If you're an unc with a background in Ruby or that era of webdev
Millennials catching strays I see.