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I think this article does capture the magic of elixir phoenix live view that is impossible in the async await madness hell in python. I cannot wait to try elixi

I think this article does capture the magic of elixir phoenix live view that is impossible in the async await madness hell in python. I cannot wait to try elixir Phoenix live view, elixir |> pipes, :atom pattern matching and ets pids to send and manage processes across servers none of these AFAIK are currently possible with the GIL and single threaded nature of python As the venerable prof Joe armstrong would say you need erlang and haskell for fp you need c for high performance you don't really need cpp Java python c# etc Also as an aside does anything in haskell have something similar in spirit to phoenix or live view?

michaelteter 4y ago
LiveView is great, but it is just one of many great reasons to use Elixir (and the ErlangVM ecosystem). There are the major benefits of Elixir itself, including FP, plus the array of features and tools for building distributed systems via OTP. Only talking about LiveView is underselling Elixir.
- noloblo 4y ago
  What are the major differences between elixir and erlang? Does elixir lose some of the advantages of the rock solid erlang improved over the years at Ericsson
ch4s3 4y ago
You can pattern match on basically any shape, not just atoms. Imagine you’re parsing a protocol over tcp and want to grab groups of characters between deliverers, you can pattern match that. I rewrote an hl7 parser from Java to Ruby to Elixr some years ago and the elixir implementation performed as well as Java and was more readable by miles.
- bongobingo1 4y ago
  > You can pattern match on basically any shape, not just atoms. Imagine you’re parsing a protocol over tcp and want to grab groups of characters between deliverers, you can pattern match that. Ex: https://youtu.be/MaQqa21uxQ8?t=548 https://youtu.be/MaQqa21uxQ8?t=548 (note that "binary" here is a "binary blob of bytes"). Andreas pattern matches on the magic byte, then encoded string length, then the string (using the previous matched length), then an int, all in the function header, no if-else-try-catch mess.
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- noloblo 4y ago
  Is this parser available for educational purposes on github thanks
- noloblo 4y ago
  What are atoms

michaelteter 4y ago

LiveView is great, but it is just one of many great reasons to use Elixir (and the ErlangVM ecosystem). There are the major benefits of Elixir itself, including FP, plus the array of features and tools for building distributed systems via OTP. Only talking about LiveView is underselling Elixir.

noloblo 4y ago
What are the major differences between elixir and erlang? Does elixir lose some of the advantages of the rock solid erlang improved over the years at Ericsson

ch4s3 4y ago

You can pattern match on basically any shape, not just atoms. Imagine you’re parsing a protocol over tcp and want to grab groups of characters between deliverers, you can pattern match that. I rewrote an hl7 parser from Java to Ruby to Elixr some years ago and the elixir implementation performed as well as Java and was more readable by miles.

bongobingo1 4y ago
> You can pattern match on basically any shape, not just atoms. Imagine you’re parsing a protocol over tcp and want to grab groups of characters between deliverers, you can pattern match that. Ex: https://youtu.be/MaQqa21uxQ8?t=548 https://youtu.be/MaQqa21uxQ8?t=548 (note that "binary" here is a "binary blob of bytes"). Andreas pattern matches on the magic byte, then encoded string length, then the string (using the previous matched length), then an int, all in the function header, no if-else-try-catch mess.
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noloblo 4y ago
Is this parser available for educational purposes on github thanks
noloblo 4y ago
What are atoms