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I've just started learning Elixir very recently after nearly 23 years of working solely with languages such as VB, C, C#, Ruby, Python, Javascript, and Go. I k
by digitalsin 4y ago
I've just started learning Elixir very recently after nearly 23 years of working solely with languages such as VB, C, C#, Ruby, Python, Javascript, and Go.
I know exactly what the presenter means when he says learning a language should be a "mind-blown" event. It's opening my eyes to an entirely new way of thinking about solving challenges. Absolutely love it, and I feel like I did myself a serious disservice for not learning something like Elixir or Erlang earlier in my career as opposed to always learning just another new imperative language.
- slondr 4y agoI was lucky enough to have learned Erlang in college and I had a similar "mind-blown" experience right in the middle of the lecture hall. When I use most other languages ever since, there's always a part of me that knows this little piece of the program could be that much more elegant and robust in Erlang...
- cplusplusfellow 4y agoI found Scala functional programming to be my “mind blown” revelation after 15 years of software. I dislike the ecosystem and the build system but I sure loved the language.