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I appreciate the explanation, you're a champ. :) While I remain haunted by thoughts of someone e.g. deserialising a YAML file into a map, which then sneaks in
by troad 2y ago
I appreciate the explanation, you're a champ. :)
While I remain haunted by thoughts of someone e.g. deserialising a YAML file into a map, which then sneaks in some __struct__ key and squeaks past the guard clause, I also appreciate this seems fairly unlikely in practice. I think I'm just traumatised by Rails. It sounds like the culture around Elixir eschews excessive cutesiness, though. Promising!
- arrowsmith 2y agoDon't let your experience with Ruby colour your opinion of Elixir. Elixir's similarity to Ruby (and Phoenix's to Rails) is hugely overstated. I wrote a long Reddit post about that[0], but for the tl;dr you can ask José Valim himself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36604054 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36604054 [0] https://old.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1ipyi81/why_should_i_use_phoenix_for_my_saas/mcvyzjn/ https://old.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1ipyi81/why_should_...