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Absolutely, (I moved over to Elixir from Clojure) and hence it seems like a strange blind-spot. When Rich talked about Systems programming and Runtimes, I expe
by s_kilk 9y ago
Absolutely, (I moved over to Elixir from Clojure) and hence it seems like a strange blind-spot.
When Rich talked about Systems programming and Runtimes, I expected Erlang/Elixir to come up as obvious examples along with Smalltalk and Common Lisp.
- christophilus 9y agoI'd love to read a writeup on your experience doing this. I love Clojure, and really don't like the Elixir syntax (though I used to dislike the Clojure syntax, so...) Have you found Elixir's oddities (like calling lambdas in a different way than you call functions lambda.(:bar) vs func(:bar)) to be annoying?
- erokar 9y agoChiming in here, having only dabbled with Elixir for a couple of months. My gripes: - Calling lambdas with a dot is a real wart. I find it very easy to forget and it looks ugly. - I also don't like the Rubyesque end keyword you have to provide for functions. Get's verbose. Whish Elixir was white space sensitive like Python, Haskell, Elm et al. - Pattern matching in functions is an idiom that is overused. It easliy gets verbose since you have to type out the full function signature. - A proliferation of data structures dictated by performance issues (lists vs. tupels, maps vs. keyword lists). Ugly map litteral: %{}. (Personal issue I guess, I tend to find $%& etc. ugly in a programming language. It's swearing at me!) Apart from these gripes I like Elixir a lot. A clean and pretty simple language. Protocols are used in a nice way to acheive polymorphism (similar to Clojure, I think). Good as a first FP language. Gives you access to an interesting runtime.