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Have not had time to try Elm yet but Elixir is such a pleasure to use, it's painful going back to JS :)

by qaq 10y ago

comboy 10y ago
Hopefully something grows out of https://github.com/bryanjos/elixirscript https://github.com/bryanjos/elixirscript so far it seems very actively developed.
- qaq 10y ago
  Yep hope it becomes production ready at some point, but you obviously will loose isolation and all soft real time properties when running transpiled JS.
- bryanjos 10y ago
  If issues such as source maps are figured out, I would feel better about people using it. Also, I would like to work on its user friendliness. Saying all of that, Elm is pretty nice and I really enjoy using it for some of the same reasons I enjoy Elixir.
  - qaq 10y ago
    Source maps does seam to be the biggest issue to solve before people can start truly experimenting. But huge congrats on starting and moving forward this amazing project.
    - bryanjos 10y ago
      Thanks!
noam87 10y ago
It really is. We're rebuilding our entire backend in Elixir and it's just been incredible every step of the way. I can't recommend it enough. The language and ecosystem are an amalgamation of industry lessons from the past three decades on what it takes to build robust networked applications. It's the most painless programming experience I've had. These days other languages feel like museum pieces when I have to jump back into them. Not to mention being able to run dozens of services, background jobs, and API in a single box as one "umbrella application"!
- qaq 10y ago
  Good to see industry uptake is picking up. Gives me hope that one day I can have a job programming in Elixir :)
  - noam87 10y ago
    Haha, what's more: through a series of coincidences I found out that the guy who built our competitor's product also did so with Elixir! (Well... not quite competitor. A similar product to ours, but which deals with the management of electricity.) So yeah, there's quite a few startup using Elixir already :) and a handful established companies as well. -- Pinterest, for example: http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/18/pinterest-elixir/ http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/18/pinterest-elixir/ : > The notification system runs across 15 servers, whereas the old system, written in Java, ran on 30. The new code is about one-tenth of the size of the old code.
    - qaq 10y ago
      I guess time to start looking then :) Thank you for the info

Have not had time to try Elm yet but Elixir is such a pleasure to use, it's painful going back to JS :)

by qaq 10y ago

Have not had time to try Elm yet but Elixir is such a pleasure to use, it's painful going back to JS :)

Hopefully something grows out of https://github.com/bryanjos/elixirscript https://github.com/bryanjos/elixirscript so far it seems very actively developed.

qaq 10y ago
Yep hope it becomes production ready at some point, but you obviously will loose isolation and all soft real time properties when running transpiled JS.
bryanjos 10y ago
If issues such as source maps are figured out, I would feel better about people using it. Also, I would like to work on its user friendliness. Saying all of that, Elm is pretty nice and I really enjoy using it for some of the same reasons I enjoy Elixir.
- qaq 10y ago
  Source maps does seam to be the biggest issue to solve before people can start truly experimenting. But huge congrats on starting and moving forward this amazing project.
  - bryanjos 10y ago
    Thanks!

noam87 10y ago

It really is. We're rebuilding our entire backend in Elixir and it's just been incredible every step of the way. I can't recommend it enough. The language and ecosystem are an amalgamation of industry lessons from the past three decades on what it takes to build robust networked applications. It's the most painless programming experience I've had. These days other languages feel like museum pieces when I have to jump back into them. Not to mention being able to run dozens of services, background jobs, and API in a single box as one "umbrella application"!

qaq 10y ago
Good to see industry uptake is picking up. Gives me hope that one day I can have a job programming in Elixir :)
- noam87 10y ago
  Haha, what's more: through a series of coincidences I found out that the guy who built our competitor's product also did so with Elixir! (Well... not quite competitor. A similar product to ours, but which deals with the management of electricity.) So yeah, there's quite a few startup using Elixir already :) and a handful established companies as well. -- Pinterest, for example: http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/18/pinterest-elixir/ http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/18/pinterest-elixir/ : > The notification system runs across 15 servers, whereas the old system, written in Java, ran on 30. The new code is about one-tenth of the size of the old code.
  - qaq 10y ago
    I guess time to start looking then :) Thank you for the info