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Elixir is close to a different syntax for Erlang/OTP. It has high quality built-in alternatives since it came into existence.
by lvass 4y ago
Elixir is close to a different syntax for Erlang/OTP. It has high quality built-in alternatives since it came into existence.
- didibus 4y agoErlang is not commonly used for web applications though, with Clojure, you had existing Java shops with Java web app who transitioned to using Clojure, simply keeping their Java web framework and writing their business logic in Clojure instead. If you adopted Elixir, you most likely were starting from scratch, a green field project. Since Erlang is already great at concurrent distributed systems, Elixir's niche became web application development, and it didn't have much existing libraries or frameworks to leverage, so I think it makes more sense for an initial popular framework to come to existence and rally others around. It still built on Erlang fundamentals, its web server is Cowboy for example, but there wasn't much on top to help with other parts of a web app.