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Re:Building a Reddit-like site after 3-4 months learning Elixir by sillysaurus3 on Monday May 22, 2017 @10:47AM (#14393996)
Are you sure this isn't more of a case of "a motivated developer writes great software" than "a silver bullet language"?
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Re:Building a Reddit-like site after 3-4 months learning Elixir by simplify on Monday May 22, 2017 @11:19AM (#14394277)
Did he say "silver bullet language"? It seemed like a good fit for his use case; I don't see him claiming anything more than that.
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Re:Building a Reddit-like site after 3-4 months learning Elixir by teilo on Monday May 22, 2017 @01:49PM (#14395563)
Correct. Not saying anything more than that. The BeamVM/OTP is a better fit for long-running high-concurrency fault-tollerant systems. That's what it was designed for.

I have not switched to Elixir/Phoenix for my other web development. I still use Django for that.

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