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Elixir + Erlang

• bgdkbtv 9y ago
  I see it becoming super popular and being mentioned very often. Is it really that great or all just hype?
  • qaq 9y ago
    You get really nice lang with very friendly community that will run on Erlang VM. So i'd say there is not enough hype :)
    • bgdkbtv 9y ago
      Is it a language and framework for web mainly? Couldn’t tell from their homepage.
      • qaq 9y ago
        It's general purpose but well suited for web, soft real time services, distributed data processing, control plain etc. Erlang VM has unique featureset that no other platform really can match so if you need to build HA fault tolerant apps/services it's pretty good match. Coming from a different language one of the nicest things is preemptive scheduler so you don't have to worry about blocking event loop or process consuming all the CPU etc.
      • jetti 9y ago
        It is in the same boat as Ruby was with Rails. One could argue that Rails made Ruby popular but mostly popular as a "web language". Phoenix is a great web framework but Elixir can do so much more by taking advantage of the OTP. I've used Elixir to get up and running with back end services that process data. Using OTP features such as GenStage it becomes easy to handle data as a pipeline. That said, most people who will move to Elixir will probably only use it with web dev and Phoenix.