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It baffles me how people give Elixir the credit for this. Everything you mentioned here have nothing to do with Elixir, but with how Erlang and its preemptive s
by rlander 9y ago
It baffles me how people give Elixir the credit for this. Everything you mentioned here have nothing to do with Elixir, but with how Erlang and its preemptive scheduler were optimized for soft real-time apps.
- jswizzy 9y agoYep, Elixir mostly just changed the syntax to something more C like instead of ant turds. Erlang is a beautiful design but the prolog syntax never really caught on.
- brightball 9y agoBEAM gets the credit but the parent mentioned Elixir so that’s how I responded. It’s just quicker than writing Elixir/Erlang/BEAM/OTP everytime. Wasn’t trying to misappropriate the credit.
- Timothycquinn 9y agoAgree that Erlang is what gives most of the performance and scalability benefits to Elixir and as such I should mention Erlang / BEAM to give due credit. However Elixir is my recommended target language for any developers who want an easy to learn language with a great community. The phoenix framework and powerful meta programming constructs are unique to Elixir.