Comparing Elixir and Go

Re:Comparing Elixir and Go by filmor on Friday January 27, 2017 @05:58AM (#13499024)

What is different in Erlang is that strings are a bit messed up in that they are linked lists of numbers. What you are suggesting (constructing the actual string in-place) works fine in Erlang, too, but has a bit of a funky syntax:

    welcome_user(Username) ->
        << <<"Welcome ">>/binary, Username/binary, <<"!">>/binary >>.

However, the main advantage of using io_lists instead is that `["Welcome", Username, "!"]` has constant complexity with regard to the length of `Username`.

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Re:Comparing Elixir and Go by diamondlovesyou on Friday January 27, 2017 @07:52AM (#13499447)

Note to anyone not already familiar: in Elixir, character strings are all binaries from the start. Just to avoid the notion that Elixir follows the mistake of strings-are-linked-lists from Erlang.

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