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This is great news for Elixir as well!

• thibaut_barrere 11y ago
  My thoughts exactly. I've never been so excited about seeing a new Erlang release :-)
  • spand 11y ago
    Anything noteworthy ? :-)
    • tachion 11y ago
      How come you havent noticed?! The number! 18! Come on, Ruby is on 2, Python struggles to get to 3 and Java tries to catch poorely with 8...
      • coldtea 11y ago
        Random numbers (18 vs Python's 3 or Java's 8) don't mean anything without comparing the release cycles and version numbering schemes as well. I could make small incremental updates to a toy language and release them every week to get to FooBarLang 200.0.0, that doesn't mean it's progressing faster than a language at release 2 or 10.
        • Conlectus 11y ago
          That's the joke.
          • coldtea 11y ago
            Maybe add the /s then? It's amazing how many people actually confuse version numbers this way, including on HN (check any discussion about semver).
        • lectrick 11y ago
          Hacker News is serious business
    • thibaut_barrere 11y ago
      That's not what I meant! It's that I've witnessed Erlang releases for quite a long time (as everyone), but the coming of Elixir (and me starting using it) made me care about them.
    • rubiquity 11y ago
      Two really nice enhancements are efficient large maps and being able to use variables as keys in maps. Also switching to the Apache license will make adoption of Erlang/Elixir more possible for certain organizations. Elixir also gets to reap any performance improvements at runtime and compilation.