Elixir v0.5.0 released

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Post by loganlinn » Fri, May 25, 2012, 3:58 PM UTC

Re: Elixir v0.5.0 released

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Post by protomyth » Fri, May 25, 2012, 4:22 PM UTC

I really wish projects like this would put together a basic, downloadable document on their language. Something that tells the reason and acts as a tour of the language.

Re: Elixir v0.5.0 released

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Post by homakov » Fri, May 25, 2012, 4:25 PM UTC

make try-elixir.org or something )

Re: Elixir v0.5.0 released

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Post by leo79 » Fri, May 25, 2012, 4:33 PM UTC

Is it me or a release notes with a list of what changed is nowhere to be found?

Re: Elixir v0.5.0 released

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Post by makmanalp » Fri, May 25, 2012, 4:42 PM UTC

protomyth wrote: post #2

I really wish projects like this would put together a basic, downloadable document on their language. Something that tells the reason and acts as a tour of the language.

As an example to this, I really like the xtend docs: http://www.eclipse.org/xtend/#extensionmethods

Re: Elixir v0.5.0 released

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Post by carlosgaldino » Fri, May 25, 2012, 5:08 PM UTC

leo79 wrote: post #4

Is it me or a release notes with a list of what changed is nowhere to be found?

Although it doesn't have a complete list of changes you can check some changes in the blog.

http://elixir-lang.org/blog/

There are some posts with a little summary of what happened during the week.

Re: Elixir v0.5.0 released

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Post by josevalim » Fri, May 25, 2012, 5:24 PM UTC

makmanalp wrote: post #5

protomyth wrote: post #2

I really wish projects like this would put together a basic, downloadable document on their language. Something that tells the reason and acts as a tour of the language.

As an example to this, I really like the xtend docs: http://www.eclipse.org/xtend/#extensionmethods

This is a nice intro. It shows the language features followed by some code examples, sweet, thanks for the link!

Re: Elixir v0.5.0 released

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Post by josevalim » Fri, May 25, 2012, 5:27 PM UTC

leo79 wrote: post #4

Is it me or a release notes with a list of what changed is nowhere to be found?

Consider this the initial release. The previous alpha versions were designed completely different, so release notes don't apply for this release. We will maintain a CHANGELOG from now on: https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/master/CHANGELOG....

Re: Elixir v0.5.0 released

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Post by vvpan » Fri, May 25, 2012, 6:04 PM UTC

I am quite excited about this project. When I was looking at Erlang the syntax totally turned me off, but the rest of it is awesome.

Re: Elixir v0.5.0 released

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Post by rlander » Fri, May 25, 2012, 6:08 PM UTC

I used to be very excited about Elixir, not because I hate Erlang's syntax (I actually quite like it), but because I saw in it the opportunity for a mainstream, general purpose language with macros on top of the excellent Erlang runtime.

However, after 2 small projects with Clojure, my thoughts have changed. To me it is the general programming language, and it's only a matter of time until clojure-beam sees the light of day (there's already Joxa).

Also, it occupies a weird spot: after v0.4's redesign, it pretty much kept Erlang's semantics, which made it unlikely to be adopted by old Erlangers and, with the whole OO thing was thrown away, it is too much a departure from Ruby.