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by pdimitar 1y ago
Ah, I meant something entirely different: that somebody looking like a jerk because there's ugly code that is very necessary for good performance... is likely true for only 10% of the time. I'd wager the other 90% are OSS maintain
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Sure. One part of the time. Likely maximum 10% even. Very often it's just somebody's fragile ego.
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Not OP but I am working with Elixir for 9 years and 2 months now. Know Rust and Golang as well. You hiring?
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by pdimitar 1y ago
I dig this laptop a lot but two things have put me off: 1. No full AMD options. I don't trust Intel's thermals and performance for several years now. Maybe they have rebounded but I no longer care. For me it's "AMD or
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Look in this sub-thread. One person claimed that is the main reason for them choosing Ruby over Elixir. I simply cannot respect that. Having a preference though? Yeah, absolutely fine. We all do.
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by pdimitar 1y ago
These benchmarks will be forever amusing. I've done two full migrations of a Rails app to Phoenix and the differences we've seen in our telemetry boards ranged anywhere from 4.5x all the way to 20x. IMO TechEmpower lost all credib
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by pdimitar 1y ago
> Add in problems finding developers skilled in Elixir and Phoenix and the small available libraries. Since the last 12-15 months, every Elixir job posted gets literal hundreds of applications. Just saying.
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by pdimitar 1y ago
And I wouldn't overestimate a language's popularity. It's mostly a social phenomenon and rarely has anything to do with technical prowess. I agree that integration with the separate LLMs / agents can and does accelerate
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by pdimitar 1y ago
And you also have `colima`[0] on top of it that makes working with Docker on the command-line a seamless experience. [0] https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
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by pdimitar 1y ago
I agree and completely sympathize. [rant] What irked me many times: people around here idolizing a certain PL they learned as kids and giving it much more credit than it ever deserved. [/rant] I completely understand the almost PTSD le
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by pdimitar 1y ago
If that CLI tool integrates with a bigger ecosystem (like connect to a cluster and reuse data / services) that's already written in Elixir, then that would make it an even bigger no-brainer to use. Also hi, haven't seen you a
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by pdimitar 1y ago
I was mostly clarifying what most people I've met believe is a "general-purpose language". I agree with your take on telling it like it is for the practical needs of the commercial programmers / users of a language. And
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Thanks for sharing. I would reach for Golang or even Rust if I was you. I work with Elixir for 9 years now (& love it) and I agree what you describe is not a good fit for it. Elixir is a general-purpose language in the meaning of Turing
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by pdimitar 1y ago
LLMs greatly reduced my annoyance in learning various plumbing details in Phoenix (dead views), LiveView and Ash. What would be days or weeks of impatient unpacking of long tutorials and guides has shrunk to days, in rarer occasions days.
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Obviously it could be a thing. But I feel it's been blown out of proportion, as it often happens.
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by pdimitar 1y ago
> Laurent Bossavit, an Agile methodology expert Congratulations, you got me to stop reading just at the start of the article. On topic, I don't think any good engineer ever claimed the title of the article. The "more expensiv
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Very curious if a bad actor can sue you if you serve them a zip bomb from an EU server. Got any links?
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by pdimitar 1y ago
I wanted to try Kata containers soon. What difficulties do you have with them?
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Is this specifically for during boot time? Also, any links?
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Maybe you should indeed! Without looking into too much details, how CLI-friendly would this tool be?
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Thanks, that's very informative. My ignorance is showing here: why is the Pro 05-06 a nerf?
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Flash is better than Pro in coding? Whoa... [makes a note to try a few things later this day] Out of curiosity, how did you gauge that?
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by pdimitar 1y ago
> Another question in theory can Rust be faster than C? If all possible optimizations are applied. Very likely not at this stage, and maybe not for years to come. But I'll take increased memory safety and elimination of entire cla
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by pdimitar 1y ago
You mostly can use Elixir libraries in Erlang but due to how Elixir macros are done and their pervasiveness, the usefulness of that feature is effectively limited. F.ex. Phoenix and Ecto, both extremely prominent and important libraries in
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Which also means less transferable knowledge. That killed it for me. If you muscle through it you'll get there, sure, but in the meantime I found languages that have smaller surface, are just as (or more) productive, and you can be onb
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by pdimitar 1y ago
In a world where we have a constant stream of memory unsafety CVEs, Rust seems superior. You might not be worried about these and that's okay but it's a real measurable factor by which you can evaluate languages.
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Elixir has a ton of really good libraries and a very active community. Erlang's is trying to catch up and they have my support as well but for the moment I find Elixir easier to deliver a full app to production.
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Do you have any links explaining the subject authorization? I have recommended NATS for a project that got scrapped.
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Have you written up about it? I'd love to read it if so. Thought of using SQLite several times like this but never mustered the courage to try.
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by pdimitar 1y ago
Oh yeah. That. :/ Well, there's a solution for that as well: execs should be liable for a number of years even after they move on. Para-troopers that swoop in, reap rewards they never worked for, and parachute away with the gold i

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