Great work Valim, Eric and everyone else!
I was following their progress and there was a constant and steady stream of changes over the last years.
Elixir Release v1.0.0
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#12Really happy to see the 1.0 milestone reached. I've enjoyed my time with Elixir. It's really approachable, and made a lot of Erlang/OTP concepts start to click for me in ways that they just hadn't, before.
Syntactically, it's a pleasure to use as a long-time Ruby guy, which I suppose is no surprise given José's presence in the Ruby community.
However, all of this aside, what makes me the most excited about Elixir is José, himself. It's been my experience that when a language/framework has a BDFL, something of that person gets infused into its community. Anyone who's interacted with José will tell you he's an incredibly friendly, humble, and downright thankful person.
Elixir is set up for success in so many ways, but the community aspect is the one we just can't afford to ignore.
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#13In case you are wonder why the excitement about Exilir ... Exilir allows you to easily create DSL in Erlang.
Phoenix is a great example that has used Exilir to create a DSL that is similar to Ruby on Rails.
http://www.littlelines.com/blog/2014/07/08/elixir-vs-ruby-sh...
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#14Really happy to see the 1.0 milestone reached. I've enjoyed my time with Elixir. It's really approachable, and made a lot of Erlang/OTP concepts start to click for me in ways that they just hadn't, before. Syntactically, it's a pleasure to use as a long-time Ruby guy, which I suppose is no surprise given José's presence in the Ruby community. However, all of this aside, what makes me the most excited about Elixir is…
Lack of jobs is a problem :( It is a nice language but has stiff competition from Go.
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#15Really happy to see the 1.0 milestone reached. I've enjoyed my time with Elixir. It's really approachable, and made a lot of Erlang/OTP concepts start to click for me in ways that they just hadn't, before. Syntactically, it's a pleasure to use as a long-time Ruby guy, which I suppose is no surprise given José's presence in the Ruby community. However, all of this aside, what makes me the most excited about Elixir is…
Lack of jobs is a problem :( It is a nice language but has stiff competition from Go.
I envision Erlang shops moving to Elixir.
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#16For the uninitiated, there was a fairly positive critique[1] of Elixir by Joe Armstrong, the creator of Erlang, last year (at least that's what got me hooked to Elixir). [1] http://joearms.github.io/2013/05/31/a-week-with-elixir.html
That's a great read! Were the warts he pointed out ever addressed?
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#18Is it recommended that you learn Erlang before you learn Elixir, or can you jump straight into Elixir without Erlang knowledge?
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I envision Erlang shops moving to Elixir.
Hah, yeah, let's port everything for no obvious reason.
Erlang and Elixir play very well together. I imagine Erlang shops "moving to Elixir" will be in the form of Erlang shops hiring people with Ruby experience and letting them use Elixir so they can get up to speed faster.
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#20A genuine non-flamebait question - if one were to write a Whatsapp-like messaging system today, would you use Erlang, Elixir,Scala,Java 8 or Go?
I'm kind of wondering whether Go is not already eating into Erlang (and Scala). I am not an expert, but I understand that Go is not at par with Erlang today, but I am wondering about a 3-year bet for a startup.