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> I had to use libraries that had not been ported over to Elixir yet so I had to deal with Erlang Why do these libraries need to be ported to Elixir at all?
by alberth 5y ago
> I had to use libraries that had not been ported over to Elixir yet so I had to deal with Erlang
Why do these libraries need to be ported to Elixir at all?
- dimgl 5y agoIIRC they don't, but as someone who doesn't know Erlang, the Erlang documentation was really hard to read and the APIs differed from other Elixir libraries.
- srevenant 5y ago+100 — the heart of the problem
- wink 5y agoImagine it's an important lib you can't just replace and there's a bug you need fixed and can't just wait for the maintainer to do it for you. Now you suddenly need to understand that language enough to do that. To some extent this happens very often, I've had it in Clojure+Java and PHP+C libraries.
- srevenant 4y agoExactly the problem I've run into on more than one occasion. And the erlang libs I'm referencing have almost zero documentation, so it really means "RTFC" which then is painful :D