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I delved into LFE, and I was a proponent when Elixir was just catching on, but Elixir's momentum just washed it away. I believe Elixir earned it, but I think it
by eggy 4y ago
I delved into LFE, and I was a proponent when Elixir was just catching on, but Elixir's momentum just washed it away. I believe Elixir earned it, but I think it had a heavy kickstart from all of the Ruby programmers who took to it. And they say syntax doesn't matter ;)
It is my understanding LFE makes a lot of compromises as a list in trying to work nicely with the Erlang VM (BEAM). I really wish Gleam kept the more Haskelly/ML syntax instead of shooting for the popularity contest by becoming more Algol or C-like. Slim Whitman allegedly sold more records than the Beatles, but I would rather listen to the Beatles!