Learn Elixir with a Rubyist (IV) – Types, Data Structures and Pattern Matching

Post by innocentoldguy » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 4:48 PM UTC

thibaut_barrere wrote: post #55

innocentoldguy wrote: post #51

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I would disagree with the notion that Elixir's ecosystem isn't as rich as Node's for two reasons: 1. Node has a lot of packages to be sure, but a lot of them are redundant, and a lot of them are packages that overcome some weakness in the Javascript standard library. Elixir doesn't have as many duplicates in its ecosystem, and its standard library is robust enough that you don't have to search for packaged one-liners…

I definitely agree with 1/, yet I was more referring to more advanced functionalities (but I do agree that the "foundations" of Elixir are very strong and I think it will ultimately be a large factor of its success). 2/ Did you mean "Elixir has access to Erlang ..." rather than "Node...", I assume? I'm well aware of that (I also use Java libraries quite a lot with JRuby etc, similarly), yet having worked with Erlang…