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Elixir 1.0.5 released

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Re: Elixir 1.0.5 released

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Post by jfaucett »

Haven't looked at elixir yet, but being an erlang fan and quickly hopping through the source it looks like elixir is doing for erlang essentially what coffeescript does to javascript. Something many non-erlangers have long lamented is the syntax so this looks quite interesting, also adding the running compiler is a nice idea for the macro support :)

Re: Elixir 1.0.5 released

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Post by josevalim »

jfaucett wrote: post #2

Haven't looked at elixir yet, but being an erlang fan and quickly hopping through the source it looks like elixir is doing for erlang essentially what coffeescript does to javascript. Something many non-erlangers have long lamented is the syntax so this looks quite interesting, also adding the running compiler is a nice idea for the macro support :)

Hi, Elixir creator here, thanks for commenting! You may want to watch my talk at Erlang Factory SF 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqo9-pQuRKE

Elixir is not really about the syntax, we have great tooling, our own standard library (with proper Unicode support, collections, unified API for dictionaries, etc) and our own approach to some constructs in OTP.

Feel free to ping here if you have any questions. I will make sure to check this thread again later.

Re: Elixir 1.0.5 released

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Post by benaiah »

josevalim wrote: post #3
jfaucett wrote: post #2

Haven't looked at elixir yet, but being an erlang fan and quickly hopping through the source it looks like elixir is doing for erlang essentially what coffeescript does to javascript. Something many non-erlangers have long lamented is the syntax so this looks quite interesting, also adding the running compiler is a nice idea for the macro support :)

Hi, Elixir creator here, thanks for commenting! You may want to watch my talk at Erlang Factory SF 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqo9-pQuRKE Elixir is not really about the syntax, we have great tooling, our own standard library (with proper Unicode support, collections, unified API for dictionaries, etc) and our own approach to some constructs in OTP. Feel free to ping here if you have any questions. I will m…

The independent stdlib is interesting, and I haven’t seen Elixir advocates mention it much before. I’ll have to look into that.

Re: Elixir 1.0.5 released

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Post by Xophmeister »

I've been reading about Elixir here-and-there for a while and decided to jump into it last week. I really like it. I'm a big fan of FP and, having increasingly found myself falling out with Python, can definitely see this becoming my dynamically typed language of choice.

Re: Elixir 1.0.5 released

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Post by pselbert »

jfaucett wrote: post #2

Haven't looked at elixir yet, but being an erlang fan and quickly hopping through the source it looks like elixir is doing for erlang essentially what coffeescript does to javascript. Something many non-erlangers have long lamented is the syntax so this looks quite interesting, also adding the running compiler is a nice idea for the macro support :)

Elixir's syntax also gains a wonderfully consistent AST, which enables all manner of meta-programming and macro writing. Sometimes there are practical benefits to syntactical choices beyond the pleasing aesthetics.

Re: Elixir 1.0.5 released

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Post by rubiquity »

benaiah wrote: post #4
josevalim wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, Elixir creator here, thanks for commenting! You may want to watch my talk at Erlang Factory SF 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqo9-pQuRKE Elixir is not really about the syntax, we have great tooling, our own standard library (with proper Unicode support, collections, unified API for dictionaries, etc) and our own approach to some constructs in OTP. Feel free to ping here if you have any questions. I will m…

The independent stdlib is interesting, and I haven’t seen Elixir advocates mention it much before. I’ll have to look into that.

The separate stdlib one of the easiest parts of Elixir to take for granted but is nonetheless a really nice part about the language. I find Elixir's stdlib to be small and yet it still covers a huge amount of your typical needs when writing Elixir.
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