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I started digging into Elixir on Columbus Day and was excitedly telling friends about its features after a few hours of tinkering. Extremely cool language that
by jmcgough 11y ago
I started digging into Elixir on Columbus Day and was excitedly telling friends about its features after a few hours of tinkering. Extremely cool language that forced me to think and approach problems a little differently (pattern matching is awesome!)
- vvanders 11y agoOne of my favorite things with pattern matching in Elixir is how you can use it to trigger off of sections of the AST when building macros. Hundreds of lines of gnarly tree walking down to a single function prototype, it's incredibly elegant.