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"Powerful" is a pretty vague term. Care to elaborate on why?

• eggy 11y ago
  Sure, but your name presages what I might have to add. I like Elixir, and would prefer to write in it rather than Erlang just based on syntax, and Elixir is evolving. But the ability to change the constructs of the language are limited compared with a Lisp like LFE. I am a novice, so I defer to the man himself to elucidate - Robert Virding - [1]. Nowadays small chips and boards can do a lot more than their ancestors, but I think the ability to write new constructs in LFE will be more 'powerful' in developing small IOT devices. [1] - http://osdir.com/ml/lisp-flavoured-erlang/2015-01/msg00010.html http://osdir.com/ml/lisp-flavoured-erlang/2015-01/msg00010.h...
  • rubiquity 11y ago
    > Sure, but your name presages what I might have to add. My username has nothing to do with affinity for syntax. In fact, I would have started with Elixir a year earlier if in 2012 I hadn't dismissed the language for looking too much like Ruby. I ultimately embraced Elixir for its Erlang-like qualities, the parts I like from Clojure and excellent tooling. > But the ability to change the constructs of the language are limited compared with a Lisp like LFE. I am a novice, so I defer to the man himself to elucidate - Robert Virding Robert actually talked with José about that on Twitter recently[0] . This is above my head as well, but I think LFE's extensibility is something that gets stretched a bit too far whenever a comparison of Elixir and LFE comes up. 0 - https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/601388406309036033 https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/601388406309036033