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having to put 'end' leaves bad taste, which is why i stopped learning ruby. i learned lisp instead and now i'm learning lfe (lisp flavored erlang) do i miss s
by dingleberry 10y ago
having to put 'end' leaves bad taste, which is why i stopped learning ruby.
i learned lisp instead and now i'm learning lfe (lisp flavored erlang)
do i miss something by not learning elixir?
- SEMW 10y ago> do i miss something by not learning elixir? Verses LFE? Not really, at the end of the day they're both ways of making programs for the Erlang VM that aim to improve on Erlang. You can use any of erlang, elixir, and LFE libraries from any of the three[0]. See Jose's comment at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lisp-flavoured-erlang/ensAkzcEDQQ/I7e1MJgjulQJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lisp-flavoured-erlang/ensAkz... . [0] though beware string types -- LFE string functions generally take charlists, same as Erlang; Elixir ones take utf-8 binaries. So you lose a bit of unicode-just-worksness compared to Elixir, but it isn't really a problem, you just need to be aware of the mismatch and be prepared to handle it
- tim333 10y agoElixir seems to have more in the way of books and videos if you like that.