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by skrebbel 2765 days ago
It's not a contest!

All I'm saying is that there are things that Elixir isn't the best at. Is that so weird? I feel like everybody responding to me has this strong emotional need to defend Elixir. Why? it's just a tool. Like any tool it has pros and cons.

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Elixir is amazing at creating parrallelized network heavy iobound applications. obviously its going to be shit if you want to do machine learning or anything computationally bound. Thats why it has amazing first class integrations!

https://github.com/fazibear/export and https://github.com/hansihe/rustler