If you could change one thing in Elixir language, what you would change?

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@BitGonzo

This might go against the grain, but I’d love some OOP. I suppose in Elixir this is done through “processes”. Still trying to wrap my head around functional.

It might be valuable to discover what elements you feel you are missing out on - for example:

• mutable vs immutable
• shared vs not shared
• designing flow of control vs flow of data (values)
• etc.

There are already some topics around that explore the differences and nuances. Like:

Thought: Relation between different programming paradigms

Today we had a guest lecture at the university for the course Information Security, that was given by a philosopher. It was very interesting, talking about the influence of technology on our lives and the implications that would have. But that’s for another topic. One of the things it touched upon, was that humans are the creatures that are able to separate their consciousness from their body. (There might be other animals that can do this, but we don’t know) This, the ability to consider thing…