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> 0.1-0.2% FTFY! :D

Cygwin is the best option because you can easily access all of the installed binaries for use with GUI emacs running in windows. But I don't consider that to be a real native optio…

Great response, I really like chicken when working on Mac or Linux, but it's windows (where I do most of my development) that it struggles. Some eggs just don't install and the err…

Agreed, people like DHL, FedEx and ParcelForce in the UK were not delivering packages when they said they would. There was a 3 month phase when I didn't recieve a single next day d…

Sure I am, for a personal project, of which I have a couple, a $5 per month Digital Ocean droplet can run pretty much anything I will ever write. Professionally my company uses AWS…

Indeed, I work in many languages with many frameworks, and if my CTO decided that we were going to use Elixir then I would happily start using it. For me personally though, I can't…

I disagree that Elixir is easy to learn, the syntax ok, it's weird compared to most OO languages, but actually using OTP is a real paradigm shift that requires a totally different …

100% This. The use cases for OTP are actually quite narrow, despite what Erlang/Elixir evangelists tell you. Discord is a fantastic use for OTP. Writing a CRUD app with a couple of…

It’s more usually referred to as pay2win