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as much as I love Elixir (and Erlang/BEAM) I get uncomfortable when people say "I heard it was a magic bullet for scalability and concurrency[...]. the language
by colbyh 9y ago
as much as I love Elixir (and Erlang/BEAM) I get uncomfortable when people say "I heard it was a magic bullet for scalability and concurrency[...]. the language provides primitives that can, in certain circumstances, make it easier to scale horizontally, but there's no magic. and there are certainly tradeoffs (esp with regards to managing state) that can actually make your code harder to scale.
dig the post, just an observation. for anyone new to the language reading this please understand that Elixir isn't a super fast/concurrent Ruby replacement. but it is a hell of a lot of fun to program in.
- weego 9y agoI feel like scala went through the same thing with akka, just with less blog hype. It's a panacea until someone asks how you manage state.