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Elixir v1.10

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Re: Elixir v1.10

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Post by emerongi »

josevalim wrote: post #25
jacquesm wrote: post #23

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Hello Jose, first of all, thank you for Elixer and Phoenix. A question that has been bugging me for a long time why Phoenix (arguably, built on one of the most reliable and battle tested stacks) has a dependency on NPM, something that I'd rather not see on any of my computers at all. Would you care to give insight into how this decision was reached and what if anything can be done to do Phoenix development and deploy…

I believe there is a flag you can pass when you create your Phoenix application that removes webpack/npm/etc. If you are using Phoenix to build APIs, then you can pass `--no-html`, that will get rid of these and other dependencies. However, if you are writing JavaScript/CSS, than it is most likely that you want to use the tooling that exists in the Node ecosystem. TL;DR - you can opt-out at any time.

There is a --no-webpack flag

Re: Elixir v1.10

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Post by happy_path »

neillyons wrote: post #9
happy_path wrote: post #3

Having learnt Ruby and a bit of Erlang, I'm interested in Elixir so I fire this tangential question: How would you recommend to learn Elixir? And a follow-up: some ideas for personal Elixir-based projects?

Alchemist Camp has good video tutorials https://alchemist.camp Also this blog post helped my understanding http://www.petecorey.com/blog/2019/05/20/minimum-viable-phoe... Phoenix LiveView [0] is really exciting to try out in Elixir. I'd recommend building an auto updating dashboard. I had a micro controller that had various sensors on it that I connected to over a serial port using circuits_uart[1]. I then read the s…

Thanks fellow person. The idea of having a project-based course like Alchemist is just was I was looking for.

Re: Elixir v1.10

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Post by ksec »

ilja wrote: post #19
sandGorgon wrote: post #13

This is the first release of Elixir after the Nubank acquisition of the parent company - http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2020/01/important-informati...

Apparently José Valim is no longer at plataformatec: https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1219264309202771968 Now at https://dashbit.co/

Thanks. I thought he joined NuBank.

Re: Elixir v1.10

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Post by [deleted] »

ashton314 wrote: post #15
emerongi wrote: post #6

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The official Elixir guide runs you through the basics all the way to the more complicated concepts: https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html For a fun and complicated Elixir project, you could try building a process pipeline that uses all your CPU cores to crunch some data. Look into Elixir Flow [0], for example, which has a fun guide on counting words in a file. Elixir & Phoenix work well for web pr…

Have you looked at Dialyxir? [1] It makes Elixir feel like a structurally typed language. I use it at work, and it catches a lot of inconsistencies at runtime. [1]: https://github.com/jeremyjh/dialyxir

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Re: Elixir v1.10

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Post by happy_path »

plainOldText wrote: post #28
happy_path wrote: post #3

Having learnt Ruby and a bit of Erlang, I'm interested in Elixir so I fire this tangential question: How would you recommend to learn Elixir? And a follow-up: some ideas for personal Elixir-based projects?

If you really want to learn Elixir, you should learn enough Erlang prior, to get a better understanding of how Erlang/OTP all fits together. Thus, I would recommend the following structure: 1. Read Joe Armstrong's Book: Programming Erlang to learn the basics and the philosophy behind Erlang from one of its creators. [1] 2. Read Erlang and OTP in Action to learn more about the OTP (Open Telecom Platform), applications…

Thank you for making me know there was an Erlang book by Mr. Armstrong, I will take a look to it.

Re: Elixir v1.10

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Post by snake117 »

happy_path wrote: post #3

Having learnt Ruby and a bit of Erlang, I'm interested in Elixir so I fire this tangential question: How would you recommend to learn Elixir? And a follow-up: some ideas for personal Elixir-based projects?

Along with the other resources mentioned, I would check out https://elixircasts.io/

I find the videos to be great, both in terms of quality and pacing. Make sure to use the coupon code 'elixirforum' (without quotes) to get 10% off!

Re: Elixir v1.10

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Post by dasil003 »

alharith wrote: post #30
plainOldText wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you really want to learn Elixir, you should learn enough Erlang prior, to get a better understanding of how Erlang/OTP all fits together. Thus, I would recommend the following structure: 1. Read Joe Armstrong's Book: Programming Erlang to learn the basics and the philosophy behind Erlang from one of its creators. [1] 2. Read Erlang and OTP in Action to learn more about the OTP (Open Telecom Platform), applications…

This makes me not want to learn elixir. Learning one language and becoming masterful at it is hard enough. There's too many "learn this language, but also this other language and platform"'s in my life (JVM-based work, and anything in the front-end JavaScript world it feels like these days). It just feels like you are telling people "Here, learn this language, but also learn the assembly instruction set for your arch…

What if it saved you from having to learn kubernetes though?

Re: Elixir v1.10

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Post by xyst »

What’s the advantage of using this language over Rust, Go, Java (or any other JVM language), or Python?

Re: Elixir v1.10

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Post by predators372 »

ilja wrote: post #19
sandGorgon wrote: post #13

This is the first release of Elixir after the Nubank acquisition of the parent company - http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2020/01/important-informati...

Apparently José Valim is no longer at plataformatec: https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1219264309202771968 Now at https://dashbit.co/

So there are no more platformatec employees involved in Elixir now then?

Re: Elixir v1.10

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Post by praveenperera »

plainOldText wrote: post #28
happy_path wrote: post #3

Having learnt Ruby and a bit of Erlang, I'm interested in Elixir so I fire this tangential question: How would you recommend to learn Elixir? And a follow-up: some ideas for personal Elixir-based projects?

If you really want to learn Elixir, you should learn enough Erlang prior, to get a better understanding of how Erlang/OTP all fits together. Thus, I would recommend the following structure: 1. Read Joe Armstrong's Book: Programming Erlang to learn the basics and the philosophy behind Erlang from one of its creators. [1] 2. Read Erlang and OTP in Action to learn more about the OTP (Open Telecom Platform), applications…

I completely disagree. You don’t need to learn Erlang to learn elixir.

Learn elixir use it, you can be very productive with it. If later for whatever reason you want to dive deeper into Erlang you can.

I’ve used elixir for 5 years now. And I’ve never had to Erlang, the most I’ve done is use some Erlang libraries in elixir.

Elixir can stand on its own

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