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• ghayes 12y ago
  I feel like Elixir in general goes a long way to lowering the barrier to using BEAM and OTP.
  • GeorgeHahn 12y ago
    Do you think folks who are just getting started in the Erlang ecosystem would be better to learn Elixir before Erlang?
    • phamilton 12y ago
      I think so. I would be careful not to approach it as another Ruby (there's a lot of overlap in the ecosystem and community) as there are a lot of things that can and should be done differently.
    • RobertKerans 12y ago
      I'm at a basic level with Elixir (played around a little bit with Erlang first), and so far I'd say definitely - the syntax choices seem very, very good, and it's a pleasure to work with. I can now read Erlang code pretty easily because of this, the concepts and structure are often the same, but introduced in a far more understandable way, and it's felt a hell of a lot smoother than going Erlang first - YMMV of course.