Switching to Elixir
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Switching to Elixir
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Re: Switching to Elixir
#2The true power of Elixir comes from processes and OTP.
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#3I love Elixir.
Re: Switching to Elixir
#4> Elixir's |>, and it inserts the result of the previous expression into the first argument of the next function
I found this convenient while writing my first Elixir app with Phoenix Liveview:
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#5I only learned about Elixir a little more than a year ago and it’s been a lot of fun to learn and incorporate in different components.
My biggest joy comes from how much one can do out of the box with beam/otp. Someone in a team I worked with once said “BEAM/OTP is like k8s only without the complicated parts”.
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#6Sasa Juric's The Soul of Erlang and Elixir talk[1] showcases how powerful the language can be.
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#7`...If you call model.update(params) in Ruby, then it returns false if it fails and updates model.errors with what went wrong. Mutable state.`
This is Rails stuff, not Ruby
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#8How do people switch programming languages? Established languages have massive ecosystems. Large set of libraries. For example, I cannot give up MS Entity Framework Core or Hot Chocolate graphql server for C#. Sure, there are alternatives, but nothing as feature complete.
Perhaps it is possible for applications that have small set of requirements.
Re: Switching to Elixir
#9How do people switch programming languages? Established languages have massive ecosystems. Large set of libraries. For example, I cannot give up MS Entity Framework Core or Hot Chocolate graphql server for C#. Sure, there are alternatives, but nothing as feature complete. Perhaps it is possible for applications that have small set of requirements.
Elixir and Erlang are very well established ecosystems.
Re: Switching to Elixir
#10How do people switch programming languages? Established languages have massive ecosystems. Large set of libraries. For example, I cannot give up MS Entity Framework Core or Hot Chocolate graphql server for C#. Sure, there are alternatives, but nothing as feature complete. Perhaps it is possible for applications that have small set of requirements.
Erlang is fairly established 37 years young language and Elixir got to build on top of Erlang ecosystem.