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Cf. `try` becoming a keyword, when there are hundreds of calls to a method named `try` in Servo, one of the largest Rust projects in existence.

The inflate crate is absolutely devoid of tests and full of unsafe code though, so the foundations of all of that are quite weak.

I implemented them in R17. José doesn't dislike them but doesn't have a syntax that fits Elixir for them, given parens around arguments of a lambda are optional.

I have rarely read things that were that much wrong. Just because the code can be represented as a data structure, or just because the compiler is written in its own language, that…

Erlang is not homoiconic. Did you mean Elixir? Neither are anyway.

Metaphors make sense, that reusing of isomorphism doesn't, however you quote Greek words to justify your means.

Isomorphism was already a word before Nodejitsu abused it. Your examples are acronyms and abbreviations. Nevermind that this concept is not even worth a name.

In which universe is polymorphism the opposite of isomorphism? Couldn't we just have said "JavaScript that runs everywhere" instead of trying to sound educated?

Replying with an attack and closing comments is definitely something a douchebag would do. Free or opensource doesn't mean you get to be irresponsible about what you release or mai…

You introduced a closure there. Bindings set in if, case, receive, etc will spill in their surrounding environment. Obviously they won't spill outside closures without mutable term…

You can. And even if you couldn't, what I mentioned is still different scoping rules, whether you put scare quotes or not.

Variables in Elixir can be rebound, and there are no unsafe variables at all in Elixir.

Sharing a common subset does not make them "fundamentally the same language".

Quotes don't magically let you say wrong things.

When two languages have different scoping rules, they don't have the same semantics. When two languages differ in their opinion about macros, they don't have the same semantics. Wh…

Syntax is the least of your worries when learning a new language. Elixir isn't Ruby. Some new projects may be developed in Elixir but it will never supplant Erlang.

Hah, yeah, let's port everything for no obvious reason.

Elixir's compiler emits Erlang forms, and then relies on OTP's Erlang's compiler. It is not a direct process.

> - Elixir compiles directly to Erlang byte code No, it compiles to Erlang. Which is then compiled by the Erlang compiler.

For the terse badmatch error and such, you might be interested in Shippai: https://github.com/nox/shippai

Why was this downvoted when it clearly shows how this article is misguided? Just because a language uses parentheses for some of its constructions doesn't mean we can call Lisp syn…

Too bad that this isn't type checking in the traditional sense though. That's just runtime tag checking.

"Tries" is the operative word here. There is a documented history of utter incompetence in Linguist.

And what exactly is standard about this?