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Isn't Elixir more like Ruby on BEAM?
by weavejester 7y ago
Isn't Elixir more like Ruby on BEAM?
- dragonwriter 7y agoSubstantively, to me, it seems more similar to Clojure than Ruby, though it has a superficial syntactic resemblance to Ruby.
- jb3689 7y agoIt's more like Erlang with syntactic sugar and macros. Phoenix and Rails have more in common than Elixir and Ruby do
- nathan_long 7y 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