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I love just the ideas in the Erlang system. I've tried to break into it a few times, including once or twice with Gleam, and kept getting blocked by terminology

I love just the ideas in the Erlang system. I've tried to break into it a few times, including once or twice with Gleam, and kept getting blocked by terminology I didn't know and couldn't look up, or instructions that didn't have the intended effect. I became convinced I needed a guide who already knows the system. That was a few years ago, and looking back I must have been wrong -- but I tried pretty hard. (I successfully learned my way around Haskell and NixOS, which are at least roughly as esoteric, but I thought much better documented. And NicOS isn't even that well documented )

ikety 2y ago
Recently been diving into Nix, elixir, gleam and F#. Heavily agree with you. One benefit of Elixir or Gleam is the friendly syntax and style that makes things easier to digest. That helps me quickly apply things to new situations. Nix is like the complete opposite, I struggle to understand other people's configs unless its super well commented. Some of that is probably unavoidable as Nix is used by users aiming to solve fundamentally complex problems