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by john_the_writer 704 days ago
This was what I was thinking.. Moving something from rails to elixir as a copy-pasta wouldn't give you the things elixir is great at. You'd just get MVC.. No use of OTP or Services.

When I was at Uni I wrote an app for a Java course. The prof laughed and said. "You're a c++ programmer aren't you." My code smelled of it.

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