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Yes it is nice language, but why the author did not create a ruby implementation over Beam? Maybe elixir has extra features than ruby, so why he does not crea
by resca79 12y ago
Yes it is nice language, but why the author did not create a ruby implementation over Beam?
Maybe elixir has extra features than ruby, so why he does not create a superset of ruby?
Try to image all ruby gems that support the feature of Elixir at zero cost, instead
we have a new language new libs...
- fisher-lebo 12y agoTrying to map a superset of a different language to the Erlang VM would likely be much more difficult than the current approach.
- klibertp 12y agoRuby semantics wouldn't map to BEAM cleanly. Pervasive immutability, error handling and concurrency constructs are very different between Ruby and Erlang, I don't think trying to bridge the gap would be an easy task.