[adamors]

Erlang is awesome, but the syntax is just so out there that it's hard to get used to it when you're usually hacking with Ruby/Python/PHP etc.

If I would be working with a functional language for 8 hours a day, perhaps Erlang wouldn't seem so alien, but I'm not so it is.

Elixir for this reason is truly a godsend, and perhaps with time I can see myself sipping more and more Erlang because of it.

[seiji]

usually hacking with Ruby/Python/PHP etc

Erlang is designed to create solid production systems. If someone is obsessed with quick hacks and fad-of-the-week programming, they will feel uncomfortable in a real development environment.

[troutwine]

This seems... harsh to me.

Yeah, so Erlang's syntax is prolog inspired and can seem a little peculiar if you're using Algol inspired languages a lot. I _vaguely_ recall a feeling unfamiliar in Erlang land because of syntax but now, six years in, I hardly care about the syntax of _any_ language. It's just the thing you get used to, like speaking in foreign languages. It's just the water in which you swim.

[gcb0]

i don't know from your high horse, but from down here, erlang satisfies my needs for badly written hacks just fine.

more so that all implementations have a in memory DB so i don't even have to bother with that as i would have with php... so yeah, installing yaws and writting <h1>hello world</h1><erl>...</erl> is as PHPish as it gets for quick web prototypes.

[gcb0]

the above said, the easy of use of yaws is what makes me reticent to even start to play with elixir. i'd be very pissed it i like it but had to go back to plain erl for web prototypes.

[banachtarski]

Try https://github.com/s1n4/leptus