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by dnautics
1987 days ago
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Elixir code out there is much cleaner than erlang code bases. In terms of organization, picking names. And there's much more dedication to testing and documentation. I think these software habits are very important for newcomers, and so if you are truly dedicated to the craft of software you probably should want them to learn Elixir even if the language is 25% more cumbersome in the small. There is something about the terseness of erlang that I think carries over to a mentality of not writing tests and not documenting. It doesn't help that it is less of a part of the culture (probably since it's an older language, Elixir is a post-"software-testing-revolution" language; Erlang is a pre-testing-revolution language). |
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You do understand this is just your subjective opinion and not a universal truth, right?
You are basing your argument as if it was a fact that Elixir is “cleaner” (whatever that means) and that there was a thing called “software-testing-revolution” which Erlang was never a part of. Both are subjective and, frankly, plain BS.
> if you are truly dedicated to the craft of software you probably should want them to learn Elixir
Oh boy, I don’t even know where to start... so you’re basically implying that Erlang programmers are not “truly dedicated to the craft of software”? It would be laughable if it wasn’t just sad.
This is the Ruby world mentality that just rubs me the wrong way. Not even worth carrying on with the discussion.