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Or you can use Elixir and get the real thing with a ruby like syntax (plus a lot more.)
by MCRed 11y ago
Or you can use Elixir and get the real thing with a ruby like syntax (plus a lot more.)
- jpgvm 11y agoDefinitely, Elixir is very nice. However it is very useful to have access to actor style concurrency outside of the BEAM ecosystem. One of the really nice things about Celluloid is you can start up the actor system inside an existing non-threaded and non-actor aware system and write concurrent code.
- decentrality 11y agoCan you expound on this?
- jpgvm 11y agoElixir is a Ruby like language that runs on the BEAM VM, the bytecode virtual machine that Erlang runs on. Elixir is thus able to execute Erlang code directly including OTP. This means you can use OTP as you would in Erlang but without the somewhat arcane syntax. Thus it can be said, you can use the "real" thing.