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> But I fear its not for me. At least not yet. What do you mean not yet - what do you think is gonna change? > pure functional programming is too much menta
by joelbluminator 5y ago
> But I fear its not for me. At least not yet.
What do you mean not yet - what do you think is gonna change?
> pure functional programming is too much mental overhead for me
This means Elixir is just not for you, I don't think you have to be in an endless eternal debate about it. There is quite the disconnect between Hacker News hype and the real world sometimes.
- halotrope 5y agoAs said. If the tooling and commercial language support would be better I might give it another shot. Also this was in the context of writing web software with deadlines. Given the time I would probably immerse myself deeper. I specifically wrote this post to give a bit of warning since I feel on HN it is considered tres chic and I would have liked to read a bit a of balanced criticism before discovering it myself. Not taking sides in functional vs OOP here.