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I just wanted to clarify that I wasn't criticizing elixir or functional languages (we've bet the company on Elixir/LiveView and it's paid off), but I was refuting the idea that it is harder to be sloppy in something like elixir.

My point was, sloppy programmers will be sloppy programmers. And if you are writing old school PHP where everything was a bunch of functions, it's even less of a cognitive shift to go to elixir, and you will write the same kind of sloppy code there too.

There's nothing special about elixir as a language that will prevent you from writing sloppy, unreadable code in the same style of PHP (as with other languages)