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You've just convinced me to spend some more time with Erlang! I've dabbled a bit and, at least on the surface, prefer erlang syntax over elixir.

• LtdJorge 1y ago
  Me too, as weird as it might sound
  • travisgriggs 1y ago
    I mostly prefer the Elixir syntax. But I don’t care for all of the “ends”. Wish they had taken more inspiration from Python in that department.
    • mg74 1y ago
      And I am grateful for the ends, wish Python had them as well. Python already marks the start of every block with a :, one more keyword and the semantic whitespace madness could end.
      • travisgriggs 1y ago
        Interesting. My very personal opinion is that punctuation like characters should be used to structure/shape code, and words/tokens should be used for expressions. I accept that others, such as yourself, have different opinions. I think the reason that I feel the way I do is that I’ve read a lot over the years (like, non fiction), so I’ve been heavily conditioned to look for infix characters to separate and define the shape of code, and strings of words to express things. But that may be self introspective reach too far.