What have you built with Elixir, HN?
I'm writing (professionally) a backend for the "internet of things".
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#12I'm constantly impressed by the level of execution of the Elixir project. In ~3 years they have accomplished much more than many other language ecosystems have to date. It's great to see the core maintainers understand that you need MUCH more than just a compiler, runtime, and std lib to create a truly vibrant ecosystem. The Elixir project includes a standard way to do templating, a powerful and robust shell, a very…
I couldn't have said it any better myself. On my way to Elixir I made short stops to Go and Rust. I was immediately impressed by the quality of mix (Elixir's build tool, task runner and dependency manager) and how easy it made getting started with Elixir. José's experience in the Ruby and Rails communities are really evident when you see the quality of tooling in Elixir.
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#14Congratulations Valim, Eric and everyone else. Great work.
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#15What have you built with Elixir, HN?
Several web services in production right now.
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#16I'm constantly impressed by the level of execution of the Elixir project. In ~3 years they have accomplished much more than many other language ecosystems have to date. It's great to see the core maintainers understand that you need MUCH more than just a compiler, runtime, and std lib to create a truly vibrant ecosystem. The Elixir project includes a standard way to do templating, a powerful and robust shell, a very…
I agree. The tooling that is released WITH the language is an amazing bonus. Of course, no one is forcing you to use ExTest, but it's amazing that they decided to just give it to you with the platform itself.
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#17Elixir is the #1 language I want to succeed. I can't imagine how amazing it would be if web development counted Elixir among its top 5 languages.
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#18What have you built with Elixir, HN?
Ultimately didn't move past the proof-of-concept phase, but I wrote an implementation of distributed latent Dirichlet allocation for NLP.
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#19Elixir reminds me a lot of Clojure.
- It's a language that sits on top of another language's bytecode (Erlang vs JVM)
- It has its own task runner and dependency manager (mix vs lein)
- It has homoiconicity and macros!
- One of its main features is amazing concurrency support.
But Elixir has been in development for a much shorter time than Clojure. Yet it's approaching the same level of maturity of Clojure very quickly.
I'm eager to see where is Elixir is adopted. I hope to see it gain some traction in the web development world.
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#20What have you built with Elixir, HN?
Packet creation and manipulation library I hope to open up soon.