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I don't see Elixir being the future, or ever killing Erlang entirely. I do prefer Erlang's syntax to Elixir's too (along with a bunch of other stuff). I expect
by mononcqc 12y ago
I don't see Elixir being the future, or ever killing Erlang entirely. I do prefer Erlang's syntax to Elixir's too (along with a bunch of other stuff).
I expect what is going to be more of a dynamic where Elixir will grab a bunch of new developers, some of which will go to the Erlang side of thing eventually, whereas Elixir had its jumpstart by draining some of the Erlang developers who were unhappy with the language.
If Elixir does catch on, it could have a spectacular rise, but I'd only expect it to trickle more people into Erlang, which already had its newcomer wave many years ago and has stabilized since then.