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by guscost
2722 days ago
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Thanks for these notes. I’m suspicious of unconditional praise for any technology, and a lot of the goodwill for Elixir seems like it’s biased by the intention to promote adoption of the language, or like it’s from people who haven’t encountered or paid attention to its problematic aspects. Seeing fundamental problems listed like this does more to convince me that it is a real and serious technology (one with a compelling set of strengths, no less). As for Rust, do try it out. Haskell-esque type checking, the “anti-OO” interpretation of C-style conventions, and memory safety without garbage collection are a seriously potent set of features, but it can be frustrating when you find out yet again that your whole day of R&D leads somewhere incompatible with its philosophy, and is therefore a dead end. I’m building a Rust webservice framework as a hobby/learning project, but it wouldn’t be my first choice for a production API under active development. On the other hand I’m not aware of a better choice for an embedded daemon process or a stable microservice. |
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I realize that the tone of this GitHub post has been a bit fanboy-ish and biased but you have to understand that your comment here is biased as well. It's non-objective to dismiss a technology because somebody couldn't articulate it as well as Mark Twain would. Most people simply aren't that good at articulation -- me included. Doesn't mean that what they are trying to articulate is invalid, wouldn't you say?
As for "fundamental problems" -- it's a case of "pick your poison" as usual. There is no universally good language. If you frequented the official Elixir Forum you would know that most of us use other technologies every day. Many people in the forum have 10+ years of experience and are well-aware of the big picture. We are very realistic about when Elixir is a good fit and when it isn't. There's a plethora of posts where we straight up advise somebody not to use Elixir.
IMO practice critical thinking and don't judge by the tone of isolated articles.
As a final point, you should also consider why the language has so much fanboy-like articles. Maybe it is doing something good for real? Objective thinking demands consideration of all major possibilities.