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Elixir was not us chasing a trend - but rather betting on a language and runtime system we knew would be amazing if it worked. Discord would not exist in the f
by jhgg 6y ago
Elixir was not us chasing a trend - but rather betting on a language and runtime system we knew would be amazing if it worked.
Discord would not exist in the form it does today if it was not for BEAM/OTP. The majority of the chat system was built and maintained by a handful of people. Fundamentally our architecture has not dramatically changed since it's inception in 2015. Can you say the same for other real time distributed systems as they have scaled from thousands to hundreds and of millions of users?
Rust was a similar bet - the language looked promising and we were right. It's been amazing to use - and it's only gotten better since we started. rust-analyzer is amazing!
- masklinn 6y agoIt's not really the subject of the discussion, but since you're here and interacting with people: would it be possible to ask the UI/UX folks if they could finally make the built-in shortcuts configurable (and deactivable)? It's really weird that such a game adjacent piece of software completely hardcodes shortcuts, especially when so many of them either conflict with or are near-misses for common chords, especially for very disruptive actions like starting voice calls. Even more so as it already has configurable keychords, just not for most of the useful stuff. Also they should fix the labelling around these, either it's just not working or it doesn't work reliably, but trying to override built-in shortcuts via the configuration (in order to disable them) has never worked for me.