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While BEAM is indeed great I'm wondering why you didn't use Scrapy? It handles concurrency well and is a battle tested production scraper.
by elktea 10y ago
While BEAM is indeed great I'm wondering why you didn't use Scrapy? It handles concurrency well and is a battle tested production scraper.
- klibertp 10y agoThe same question was asked when I gave the talk. I'm afraid the only answer is: because I could :-) I thought up a project where it would make some sense to use Elixir and went with it. It's not practical or "real world" project at all! The point is that the integration Python<->Elixir can be so tight and that there's little overhead when using each language for things it's good at.
- eggy 10y ago> because I could Love that! I will look it over, and because I favor LFE (Lisp Flavored Erlang) over Elixir, try to do something neat like this. Although, Elixir is growing on me from my initial take on it a year ago.