Style Question: what do we call idiomatic Elixir?

I’ve seen most people say “idiomatic Elixir”.
Let just wait for some word to appear from nowhere and use it

I would say idiomatic Elixir as well

much rather define what is idiomatic Elixir rather than name it

No offense to the Python community but pythonic? really?

yeah, that’s not really new

I don’t see why pythonic is bad. It’s a hell of a lot easier to say, “We should refactor this to be more pythonic,” than to say, “we should refactor this in a way that is more consistent with the guidelines of idiomatic Python.”

Because it’s a made up word. Saying something is “idiomatic Python” is self-documenting and doesn’t require the follow-up of “what is Pythonic?” IMO making up words that only community insiders know is counter to a welcoming community, but I was mostly just joking (although I really don’t like fake English).

I think Idiomatic Elixir is fine, Fluidic would be a cool name for some Elixir project though

There’s nothing wrong with made up words - as long as there’s some thought behind them

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Bad examples include twttr (before it became Twitter).

Pythonic is a made up work, but it’s a made up word that makes sense. “-onic” tells you everything you need to do. If it was something like “Pythonicalogious” then I’d agree with you.

It’s no different from “Rubyist”.

Is this a hidden proposal to call idiomatic ruby “rubysh”?

I like the conciseness of “pythonic”, as you already mentioned before, because it is assembled from “python” and “-onic” it tells you everything. This is a very clear word.

But there is no way to form such a word for elixir. Elixironic? Sounds like my “rubysh” from above, a little like a joke… Elixiromatic? Thats more like a machine spitting out some kind of magic juice every couple of minutes (as in coffee-o-matic).

So it is the best to just stick with what we already have: “idiomatic elixir”