[nixpulvis]

Tangent: It's proposed that Elixir has better error handling than Rust... but this doesn't sit well with me, and I know the Rust community is in flux here as well. I personally like not having exceptions. It's very easy to trace where an error is coming from when it's a value like anything else. Yea it might be a bit more typing... this is the conflict. Rust does have an issue with the boilerplate involved with writing error types, but there are already attempts at fixing this as a crate: https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/failure

[thedoops]

Different tools for different jobs. Rust is more of a systems language for close to metal performance and memory safety. Elixir is memory safe from a functional perspective utilizing the actor model. Elixir is good for real time concurrency and higher level systems.

[qaq]

? OTP and Supervisers give you powerful tools for building fault tolerant apps but at the lang level it would be hard to argue that Elixir has better error handling