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When I first started doing Elixir I was worried that it depended on old technology... then realized it is actually just mature and always improving.
by xutopia 8y ago
When I first started doing Elixir I was worried that it depended on old technology... then realized it is actually just mature and always improving.
- derefr 8y agoThe one weird legacy feature that grates on me when trying to do strange things with Erlang is its heavy reliance on the filesystem. You can barely generate+load a module in memory; you can't generate+load an application in memory, let alone a relup or an entire release. These operations all use the filesystem as a working store for their state. There's many other similar things—e.g. the reliance the ssh application has on the OS host-keys directory.