As much as I still feel I’m not, I’d think I’d qualify as a seasoned language developer, and Erlang is easy, it is simple prolog’y syntax wrapper a dynamically typed ML language, it is really easy. If you want ‘difficult and not intuitive’ I can point you to other languages.
Entirely agree. Elixir is a bliss to deploy! Compared to erlang or ruby or node or any other horror of things, Erlang is by far the easiest to deploy short of simple setup scripts.
Have to agree here too. The JVM has so many great languages on it, and even recent Java has got so many ‘modern’ features that it has become quite nice as well.
I’d pick a good blas library in C++/Rust over Python for number crunching any day. Python is still interpreted and has to marshall data to the numpy library, it just has an easier syntax of it (and even that is debatable).
As well as the BEAM’s Ports are fantastic to interoperate with anything! ^.^
Yeah, no coupling here whatsoever, even Ecto comes with postgresql and mysql both.
I think most use postgresql just because postgresql is amazing.
Erlang does have ‘macros’ called Parse Transforms. Overall they are actually ‘more’ powerful than Elixir’s macro’s, however they are an utter pain to use. >.<
Like I said, PostgreSQL is amazing! ^.^
I have mine FDW’d to an Oracle database and soon an old MySQL database too!!
