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I can understand deciding Elixer is a good solution for for concurrency. What I couldn’t understand from the story was why it was needed. Unless the IDE had som
by mikeryan 5y ago
I can understand deciding Elixer is a good solution for for concurrency. What I couldn’t understand from the story was why it was needed. Unless the IDE had some sort of real-time shared coding?
There’s nothing in the list of requirements that couldn’t be done over http it all seems asynchronous? Scale here seems like it would be small.
Three months is almost zero time for a team of 4. I’m glad it all worked out but I have a harder time from the story understanding how using Elixer was the right choice vs a stack they were more familiar and confident on condieribg the constraints.
- sodapopcan 5y agoImmutability is its own reward :) Yes yes, available in other langs, but it kinda takes YAGNI in terms of scale off the table since it's a perfectly good fit for small applications as well. It just happens to scale (in terms of concurrency) really well. But if you never need to use those features that's ok—you'll still have an application written in a really nice, expressively terse language.