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by siscia 3822 days ago
Almost, you definitely have a nice REPL however I find the workflow of Clojure way better.

The problem I think lays on the fact that Clojure group function inside very flexible namespace, while Elixir use more rigid modules.

However in my limited experience the way you code Elixir feels very different from the way you code Clojure.

It's difficult to explain, but I would say that I follow more my gut while I code Clojure and more reflexive while I code Elixir, the code in Clojure support concurrency and parallelism, while in elixir concurrency is the norm... Not sure if I was able to explain it...

Both wonderful languages anyway.
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iso8859-1 3821 days ago
> the code in Clojure support concurrency and parallelism, while in elixir concurrency is the norm

This makes little sense to me. You feel it is the norm in both?

If you are unsure if a post is readable, why not just rewrite it?

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simoncion 3821 days ago
> If you are unsure if a post is readable, why not just rewrite it?

One can grapple with several ways to express something, and be unsure which one is the best. Sometimes just publishing is better than being forever stuck in an indecision loop. :)

The questions that arise from the confusion can tell you how to better structure your words.

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siscia 3821 days ago
Wise words, thanks :)
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siscia 3821 days ago
Hi,

nope, I feel that concurrency is the norm in Elixir, while it is supported in Clojure, let me explain better.

In Clojure you have an idea on which order what function is called on what data ie. you read your data from IO, you clean it, you analyze it and finally return the result in IO.

This code is sequential, granted you can ask the first batch of data to the IO and while you wait for the second batch start to analyzes the data you already got (concurrency) or/and spawn a lot of map-reduce jobs to use all your processors to analyze the data (parallelism)

In Elixir you define a lot of independent process (you can see a process as data plus functions that act on that data itself) and each process run concurrently with the other, this create a lot of new problems but is also very powerful.

> If you are unsure if a post is readable, why not just rewrite it?

Actually I was in the car while I wrote the message, this is the first chance I got back on my computer.

You are the only one who felt to comment on the post asking for more clarification, it means that either people don't care or that people did understand what I was saying, I am just glad that you asked so I can clarify myself and explain better ;)

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