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> Just give me Clojure running on BEAM and I'll take it over anything in this world. Isn't it more or less what Elixir is?
by rhizome31 8y ago
> Just give me Clojure running on BEAM and I'll take it over anything in this world.
Isn't it more or less what Elixir is?
- weavejester 8y agoIsn't Elixir more like Ruby on BEAM?
- dragonwriter 8y agoSubstantively, to me, it seems more similar to Clojure than Ruby, though it has a superficial syntactic resemblance to Ruby.
- jb3689 8y agoIt's more like Erlang with syntactic sugar and macros. Phoenix and Rails have more in common than Elixir and Ruby do
- nathan_long 8y agoAs a Ruby dev turned Elixir dev: no. I mean, they both have `do..end` blocks, which I don't love in either language. But the similarities pretty much end there. Here's the view of someone who went from Erlang to Elixir: https://www.theerlangelist.com/article/why_elixir https://www.theerlangelist.com/article/why_elixir
- iLemming 7y agoThe biggest disadvantage of Elixir today - it doesn't have its own thing comparable with Clojurescript. Clojurescript is not just extremely nice compiler that gives you syntactic sugar, you can totally share code between JVM and JS and that's incredibly awesome.