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what would you say that elixir does better than anyone else?
by redanddead 4y ago
what would you say that elixir does better than anyone else?
- cultofmetatron 4y agobetter is subjective so I'd rather not go into that too deeply haha. Its all about the tradeoffs you're going after. If you absolutely need to cut down errors to a minimum and are willing to sacrifice developer speed/productivity, Haskell with IHP is certainly a compelling offer. (yes I know an experienced haskell dev will probably be jsut as productive as a experienced elixir dev but it will take much longer to train someone from another language to haskell than to elixir.) conversely, if you want speed at all costs, rust is certainly nice. now if we're talking Pareto efficient intersection of performance, developer productivity and maintainability, yea elixir hits that sweet spot well. I haven't encountered a language that does that better yet. Python comes close if you're willing to take a drastic hit on performance. The tooling is descent, the day to day ergonomics let me focus on solving our startup's problems rather than wrestling with the platform. It's not perfect (lord knows I wish there were more libraries).