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What's wrong with getting excited about a new language and framework that's better? Being vocal about how awesome something is gets people involved which grows
by jbhatab 10y ago
What's wrong with getting excited about a new language and framework that's better? Being vocal about how awesome something is gets people involved which grows the community. A larger community translates to more educational material and tooling.
I think zealotism has a fine line, but I don't think it's all bad. It's almost like protestors that believe in something strongly. Sometimes they cross the line, but them protesting gains visibility which results in change.
- MrBra 10y agoBetter than what?
- erik14th 10y agoErlang was developed to solve problems that are quite common in Web Development like concurrency, high availability and so on. I see Elixir basically as a user-friendlier version of Erlang with some added goodies. So I think it makes perfect sense for it to be popular among the Web crowd. It definitely has it's own problems(ease of deployment, package maturity, imo). But if your problem involves networks I think Elixir is at the very least worth having a look at.
- innocentoldguy 10y agoDeploying Elixir is extremely easy with Distillery, I think. https://github.com/bitwalker/distillery https://github.com/bitwalker/distillery