I agree in principle but I think that your average Python developer that thinks that Node.js is an improvement over Python is going to have seizures if they need to switch to Elixer. It's a completely different way of working.

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gchamonlive 3 days ago | parent [-]

I don't know... I'm your average python dev. I don't think nodejs is necessarily an improvement, but when I got to pick up a bit of elixir, and after struggling a bit with the many collection types and the pattern matching, when it clicked it was really eye-opening. So I don't think this is out of the league of the regular dev. I think if we were talking about Haskell that would probably apply, but elixir is fine. Even metaprogramming is very intuitive in elixir once you get the hang of it. It's just a very well designed language.

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jacquesm 3 days ago | parent [-]

Indeed it is, and congratulations to making it to the other side of the ascent.

It's interesting, for some people Elixir really clicks, others can't make heads or tails of it. I don't mind Erlang either, but I understand that that is really an acquired taste.

	▲	gchamonlive 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Still, there is a long way for me to actually be productive with elixir. Sure I can now solve some advent of code challenges with it, but I still haven't done a proper project with Liveview and OTP. I've seen enough though to have me convinced this is the way.