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by simoncion 3821 days ago
> the fantastic :observer.start() utility for visually observing tons of details about a running pid hierarchy, etc.

observer is a rather nice tool. It is, -however- not an Elixir feature, but is something that ships with Erlang. [0] As you mentioned, you can call any Erlang code in Elixir (and vice-versa!). IIRC, you do the former by prefacing the Erlang code with a ":". So, ":observer.start()" would be written in Erlang as "observer:start()" and do exactly the same thing. :)

[0] Not that you claimed that observer was an Elixir invention, mind. The whole point of this comment is to point out how easy Erlang <--> Elixir interop is. :)

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Yes to all of the above :)