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Re: A command-line weather app built using Elixir

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Post by teh_klev » Thu, May 07, 2015, 2:19 PM UTC

nodata wrote: post #6

It's nice, but it's not beautiful. Let's stop calling everything beautiful.

...and "awesome".

Re: A command-line weather app built using Elixir

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Post by q3k » Thu, May 07, 2015, 2:22 PM UTC

rnhmjoj wrote: post #27

function weather(){curl -s "http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=$1&units=metric" | jq .main.temp | figlet -kcf big} $ weather london __ _ _ ___ _____ /_ || || | |__ \ | ____| | || || |_ ) || |__ | ||__ _| / / |___ \ | | | | _ / /_ ___) | |_| |_|(_)|____||____/

But that's not web-scale and written in a functional language!

Re: A command-line weather app built using Elixir

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Post by iamcurious » Thu, May 07, 2015, 2:27 PM UTC

renekooi wrote: post #4

Another ASCII art weather (forecast) utility, but in Go: https://github.com/schachmat/wego

Unlike the main post, this is a good use of ASCII art. i.e. to show a drawing/symbol not to make numbers more difficult to parse...

Re: A command-line weather app built using Elixir

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Post by iamcurious » Thu, May 07, 2015, 2:29 PM UTC

jalada wrote: post #5

Interesting describing ASCII art as 'beautiful'. You can tell this isn't Designer News :P

Outputting numbers as ASCII art is not beautiful. Can't parse it, can't pipe it, doesn't deserve to be in the command line.

Re: A command-line weather app built using Elixir

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Post by jbverschoor » Thu, May 07, 2015, 2:38 PM UTC

Does not work (osx):

  ~/tmp/elixir-weather $ ./weather  Amsterdam

  =INFO REPORT==== 7-May-2015::16:37:56 ===
      application: elixir
      exited: {bad_return,
                  {{elixir,start,[normal,[]]},
                   {'EXIT',
                       {{badmatch,{error,enotsup}},
                        [{elixir,start,2,[{file,"src/elixir.erl"},{line,34}]},
                         {application_master,start_it_old,4,
                             [{file,"application_master.erl"},{line,272}]}]}}}}
      type: temporary
  Failed to start Elixir.
  error: {error,
             {elixir,
                 {bad_return,
                     {{elixir,start,[normal,[]]},
                      {'EXIT',
                          {{badmatch,{error,enotsup}},
                           [{elixir,start,2,[{file,"src/elixir.erl"},{line,34}]},
                            {application_master,start_it_old,4,
                                [{file,"application_master.erl"},
                                 {line,272}]}]}}}}}}

Re: A command-line weather app built using Elixir

#36

Post by grimmdude » Thu, May 07, 2015, 2:58 PM UTC

http://weather.com/

Re: A command-line weather app built using Elixir

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Post by jhwhite » Thu, May 07, 2015, 3:06 PM UTC

Ya know, I was just thinking about doing something like this just a couple of days ago, but instead I wrote a python script to get the weather from forecast.io api, then brought that into my tmux status bar.

Re: A command-line weather app built using Elixir

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Post by ZenSwordArts » Thu, May 07, 2015, 3:07 PM UTC

renekooi wrote: post #4

Another ASCII art weather (forecast) utility, but in Go: https://github.com/schachmat/wego

Wow thanks for sharing.. this is really is beautiful!

Re: A command-line weather app built using Elixir

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Post by erikb » Thu, May 07, 2015, 3:38 PM UTC

That's not the weather, that's the temperature. But I like the effort put into making interesting little tools!

Re: A command-line weather app built using Elixir

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Post by _qbjt » Thu, May 07, 2015, 3:54 PM UTC

I'm sorry if this comes across as negative, but this is an example of using the wrong tool for the job, IMO.

I love Erlang and Elixir because BEAM gives me easy concurrency, metaprogramming and best of all, fault tolerance via supervisors. For a service that I need to stay alive, this is great. For a simple command line utility, I'd lean more toward a compiled language like Go, Haskell, Common Lisp, etc.