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Is it just me or has HN been full of Elixir posts recently? Is there a trend I’m missing?
by behnamoh 3y ago
Is it just me or has HN been full of Elixir posts recently? Is there a trend I’m missing?
- impulser_ 3y agoElixir has always been a well liked language on here and in general. The past year there has been a lot of work on building data and AI/ML libraries in Elixir. Explorer, Nx, Axon, Scholar, Bumblebee, Broadway, Livebook and now EXGBoost. You can get pretty close to building a full stack AI application in Elixir now. From data ingestion and processing all the way to serving the model in a Phoenix web app. All in Elixir. I think it's great more languages are becoming alternates to Python in data and AI/ML, more options the better.
- lawik 3y agoThere have been a few just recently. Bit of an ML boom in Elixir and ML is popular right now. As an Elixir-centric blogger I can tell you that Elixir generally seems to do well on Hacker News. I think it has a lot of overlap with interests on here. Erlang is the underpinnings and Erlang is generally interesting from a comp sci standpoint. Elixir's roots in Ruby line it up nicely with SaaS, startups and that whole space.