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Elixir v1.3 released

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Re: Elixir v1.3 released

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Post by nailer »

TY wrote: post #7

Awesome! Elixir is quickly becoming my new go to language for the web apps and more. Come for concurrency, stay for metaprogramming. :-)

> Come for concurrency, stay for metaprogramming. :-)

hehe. I've only done a bit of Elixir, but coming from a node and Python background that's pretty accurate:

- It should be the VMs job to take care of concurrency, not the programmers

- Although functions having different signatures is common in the front end JS world (mainly due to jQuery) metaprogramming is a nicer way to do it.

Also 5-10ms response times for a basic Phoenix web app is pretty rad. If I wasn't building a startup and thus had the time, I'd love to do more Elixir.

Re: Elixir v1.3 released

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Post by ams6110 »

andybak wrote: post #10

I've never really looked into Elixir. I'm a Python guy and readability is the first thing that makes me love or hate a new language. Considering I've always found Erlang fairly obtuse visually I am surprised by how easy on the eye Elixir is. I found this quote very telling: > "Elixir is simply the first language since Ruby to really care about code beauty and UX of the language, libraries and ecosystem." (found here:…

I started out learning Erlang before Elixr had really crossed my radar. I have to say I prefer the Erlang syntax to the ruby-inspired Elixir. Maybe just a matter of what you know, I could see a RoR developer finding Elixir more appealing (I've never really used Ruby or Rails at all).

Re: Elixir v1.3 released

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Post by StavrosK »

andybak wrote: post #10

I've never really looked into Elixir. I'm a Python guy and readability is the first thing that makes me love or hate a new language. Considering I've always found Erlang fairly obtuse visually I am surprised by how easy on the eye Elixir is. I found this quote very telling: > "Elixir is simply the first language since Ruby to really care about code beauty and UX of the language, libraries and ecosystem." (found here:…

> Of course they meant 'Python' instead of 'Ruby' but hey ;-)

Well, no, Python is four years older than Ruby, so the quote isn't inaccurate :P

Re: Elixir v1.3 released

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Post by andruby »

josevalim wrote: post #2

The proper announcement can also be found on our page: http://elixir-lang.org/blog/2016/06/21/elixir-v1-3-0-release... It is slightly better formatted and contains images from the graph commands and ExUnit diff format.

Thank you José. Maybe a moderator can edit the url to point to the proper blogpost.

Re: Elixir v1.3 released

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Post by tuvistavie »

josevalim wrote: post #2

The proper announcement can also be found on our page: http://elixir-lang.org/blog/2016/06/21/elixir-v1-3-0-release... It is slightly better formatted and contains images from the graph commands and ExUnit diff format.

I also published a blog post[1] about Elixir 1.3 a little while ago, which is partly complementary to the official one.

[1]: http://tuvistavie.com/2016/elixir-1-3/

Re: Elixir v1.3 released

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Post by sctb »

josevalim wrote: post #2

The proper announcement can also be found on our page: http://elixir-lang.org/blog/2016/06/21/elixir-v1-3-0-release... It is slightly better formatted and contains images from the graph commands and ExUnit diff format.

Thanks! We updated the link from https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.3/CHANGELOG.md.
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