Elixir 1.3.1 released

Re:Elixir 1.3.1 released by ams6110 on Monday July 11, 2016 @02:24PM (#12073113)

What's the advantage of Elixr/Phoenix over straight Erlang and something like Nitrogen or N2O?

I understand that some people (especially those with a Ruby/Rails background) find Elixr/Phoenix more familiar. But is there more going on here than syntactic sugar?

If it's ultimately a BEAM application, I'm guessing that Elixr can't do anything that you can't do in Erlang, is that wrong?

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Re:Elixir 1.3.1 released by biokoda on Monday July 11, 2016 @03:19PM (#12073575)

Nitrogen and N2O really aren't that good as frameworks.

Phoenix builds and improves on years of web framework iterations from Rails. They did a lot of things right there, but they are hampered by the limitations of the Ruby language.

Elixir is Erlang but nicer. While erlang is awesome (I write it every day), it's still a bit of a clunky language that could be much more elegant.

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Re:Elixir 1.3.1 released by Tenhundfeld on Monday July 11, 2016 @02:55PM (#12073372)

At some point, all programming languages are syntactic sugar over assembly. :)

But I hear what you're asking. I'm not really familiar enough to answer, but I've seen plenty of articles that say it's more than just a familiar syntax, e.g., http://devintorr.es/blog/2013/06/11/elixir-its-not-about-syn...

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