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I liked Elixir but will it help me do stuff other than Embedded development and Web development? Should I learn Elixir if I am not interested in Web Development?
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ceolinrenato
What field of software development are you particulary interested in?
herolixir
I do programming as a hobby, I like doing maths, automating tasks(including internet interactions) and console app development with a PL.
ceolinrenato
You then should take a look at Elixir’s escripts (Executables) Executables · Elixir School
You can use Elixir to write console applications using it. For simple maths I would recomend just using Elixir’s iex
dominicletz
There is a big range of apps that Elixir is useful for. I’ve seen and done:
But usage of Elixir specifically for webapps is at the moment the one use case with the biggest ecosystem support I would say
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ityonemo
In my last gig I wrote a virtual machine orchestrator, (deployed to prod, revenue positive).