Original post mentions: They recently got an internship at a ‘nice’ company The company uses Elixir having transitioned from Scala User asks why they should learn Elixir Mod edit: It appears this post was copied from another site (possibly by a bot) however in cases where members of the communit…

That sounds phenomenal! Congratulations. I’m guessing the company made a reasonable and sound decision based on their needs and constraints in choosing Elixir. Starting a new, I think you find the syntax very approachable and pleasing. Moreover, hexdocs is a phenomenal resource for documentation…

I wrote some test helpers that shard stateful parts of the program I’m writing for work. Each test gets branded with a “universe id” and the stateful systems only report back the parts that exist in it’s view of the universe. My tests can run concurrently, sharing elixir data structures and servic…

Also I recommend this video, by the creator of the WAT meme: this is informed by years of consulting and developing applications. https://youtu.be/yTkzNHF6rMs . It predates elixir but basically presages everything that Elixir became. And you’re seeing other frameworks head that way too, like React,…

This probably summarises why Elixir (and the platform it runs on) is awesome: [image] The Soul of Erlang and Elixir - Saša Jurić - GOTO 2019 Talks [The Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Sasa Juric • GOTO 2019] Whether you’re developing a small web site or a large-scale…

I’m currently working with Node.js typescript and PHP project. When I found a things I don’t like working with, most of them are solved by copying from elixir/phoenix pattern. for example I have this naming problem when writing typescript at first I have a file like this interface IEntity { //stru…

Why to enjoy Elixir: Pure functional, easy to reason about what code does, only mutability is via message passing. Essentially free parallelism and concurrency both to an extreme degree, even across multiple servers. Fantastic packaging and tooling ecosystems. Some of the fastest I/O of any langua…

already posted on reddit… [image] r/elixir - Why do you guys think Elixir is awesome? 53 votes and 32 comments so far on Reddit

Behind all the technical related stuff, Elixir’s community is one of the best I’ve had the pleasure to connect and interact with! I agree :slightly_smiling_face:

no xml security exploits :slight_smile:

Why do you think Elixir is awesome?

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mindok November 6, 2019, 9:19am 5

This probably summarises why Elixir (and the platform it runs on) is awesome: