Ask HN: Scala or Elixir, What would you recommend me?

Re:Ask HN: Scala or Elixir, What would you recommend me? by justthistime_ on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @05:53PM (#10300016)

Language rarely matters, but Scala is were the action is today and probably in the future.

Both languages could be considered "add-ons" on top of their runtime, so you have to think about how likely it is that the "base" language gets good enough to slow down adoption significantly.

In Scala's case it's quite unlikely that Java will ever be able to even decrease the gap let alone closing it.

Elixir feels a lot like CoffeeScript in that regard.

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Re:Ask HN: Scala or Elixir, What would you recommend me? by jnbiche on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @06:09PM (#10300133)

> Elixir feels a lot like CoffeeScript

Elixir's syntax bears some resemblance to CoffeeScript (both were influenced by Ruby's syntax) but otherwise it's hard to imagine a language more unlike CoffeeScript/JavaScript.

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Re:Ask HN: Scala or Elixir, What would you recommend me? by justthistime_ on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @06:10PM (#10300143)

I meant in terms of being obsoleted by their "base" language (JavaScript).

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Re:Ask HN: Scala or Elixir, What would you recommend me? by jnbiche on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @06:25PM (#10300236)

Yes, the added "in that regard" makes that clear.

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