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I have the opposite opinion. These things tend to get lost in my tabs.
Pin your tab.. But I hear you, having the same problem, there are trade-offs for sure.
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Because of the Java ecosystem, in Clojure you are in much more advantageous position than with Elixir.
I tend think the opposite. Developing for Android I found the Java build process and maintaining a solid development environment a headache. If that follows on to Clojure I can see why it wouldn’t be as popular even if the language itself is overall better.
Elixir, on the other hand, welcomes the newcomer better.
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In terms of major companies using Elixir, Discord and Whatsapp are built with it. Whatsapp is slowly chipping away at its Elixir for infra homogeneity reasons with the rest of facebook but discord is still all aboard the Elixir train.
Neat, I didn't know about Discord. Whatsapp I thought it was all Erlang, are you sure about Elixir being prevalent there? I wonder if it's only a few teams handling major events at Discord, or if that's truly their default backend service language all their backend teams uses. If so, maybe I should look at their job listings :p
As for whatsapp, they are mainly a erlang shop and yesterday they open sourced a type checker for erlang:
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Neat, I didn't know about Discord. Whatsapp I thought it was all Erlang, are you sure about Elixir being prevalent there? I wonder if it's only a few teams handling major events at Discord, or if that's truly their default backend service language all their backend teams uses. If so, maybe I should look at their job listings :p
I think they use Go too.
https://discord.com/blog/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to...
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I've wondered whether it's easier to add data analyst stuff to Elixir that Python seems to have, or add features to Python that Erlang (and by extension Elixir) provides out of the box. By what I can see, if you want multiprocessing on Python in an easier way (let's say running async), you have to use something like ray core[0], then if you want multiple machines you need redis(?). Elixir/Erlang supports this out of…
[I have no experience with Elixir.] Would that be possible to have elixir intelligently manage multiprocessing of python scripts? I would be especially interested in being able to have the scripts talk to each other, but have no idea how it could work, besides perhaps having them communicate by writing to / reading from the same files, which seems risky.
https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2021/01/13/orchestrating-comput...
not sure what the livebook is--the landing page is not sufficiently clear or coherent.
> Write interactive & collaborative code notebooks in Elixir Think Jupyter Notebooks (if you're familiar with the python world), but collaborative and for Elixir.
For example, recently an addition to add automatically generated sequence diagrams to Livebook Kino (https://github.com/livebook-dev/kino/pull/165). So generate code which shows a supervision tree, and automatically create a visual diagram of the code in one place. Pretty great for learning and explanatory material.
It's a fantastic way to learn and a huge advantage over other languages, I think, to help build up the Elixir community.
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> Write interactive & collaborative code notebooks in Elixir Think Jupyter Notebooks (if you're familiar with the python world), but collaborative and for Elixir.
I think this is a fair analogy, but maybe I'd add that LiveBooks uses MarkDown markupfor the non-code part of the notebook, make it far more readable, and with more visualizations coming in. For example, recently an addition to add automatically generated sequence diagrams to Livebook Kino ( https://github.com/livebook-dev/kino/pull/165 ). So generate code which shows a supervision tree, and automatically create a vi…
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Definitely easier to add Pandas to Elixir than preemptively scheduled green threads to Python.
Plus sane failure domains: go has had preemptively scheduled green threads from day one but failure domains are really not a thing in go.