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Nice, can you describe some of the interesting elements Elixir brought to development experience? How would you compare it to your previous tool of choice? Gr
by mazerackham 11y ago
Nice, can you describe some of the interesting elements Elixir brought to development experience? How would you compare it to your previous tool of choice?
Great to see Elixir getting more use!
- acconrad 11y agoI'm a Rails developer so the transition was really smooth. I'm also very curious so I've tried a host of other languages in my time (Clojure, Haskell, Go, OcaML) so it wasn't too difficult to pick up. One thing I love is that if something isn't written in Elixir, you can just call the underlying Erlang library and have access to essentially two languages at once. I also love how fast it is - things render extremely quickly even on a hobby dyno, which is impressive because that would never happen on a Rails side project. I also love the out-of-the-box ES6 support for JavaScript. Plus, I just really love writing in a functional programming style, so the language makes a lot of sense while retaining the ease of use when reading a language like Ruby or Python.