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no elixir/beam is very slow for any computation-heavy tasks.
by ninjakeyboard 8y ago
no elixir/beam is very slow for any computation-heavy tasks.
- qwerty456127 8y agoBut what about not so computation-heavy tasks like parsing HTTP requests, interacting with databases, generating and serving responses based on the input, templates, reasonably simple logic and the data? And if it's not fast then why even consider it when there are more well-established alternatives like Ruby for those who like the syntax, ASP.Net/Core, Python/Django, Node/Express, Scala/Play for the FP lovers etc? I've been previously told it's key features are it's super fast, functional and Ruby-like.
- pmontra 8y agoSuper fast, no. At least not in the C++ way. Faster than Ruby or Python, yes. Functional, yes. Ruby-like, yes, as German is English like (mostly guessable vocabulary.) Then you discover that the two languages work in totally different ways and your Ruby skills don't really matter anything when working in Elixir.