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> Elixir is pretty widely considered to be the Ruby successor. Really? That feels really odd, once you get past the surface level syntax, Elixir doesn't really
by yifanl 4y ago
> Elixir is pretty widely considered to be the Ruby successor.
Really? That feels really odd, once you get past the surface level syntax, Elixir doesn't really resemble Ruby to me, unless you've conditioned yourself to write purely functional Ruby?
- Tao3300 4y agoHere I thought it was a gateway drug into Erlang
- yifanl 4y agoYou can certainly treat it as a nicer interface into the BEAM VM, but it's certainly possible to never write a line of Erlang while being an amateur Elixir developer. Though I'll have to defer to others if its also possible as a professional.