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Re:Elixir 1.5 released by mattferderer on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @09:34AM (#14847565)
I believe the popular quote with Erlang is that Erlang makes hard things easy & easy things hard. Elixir was built around the idea of keeping the easy things easy. It does so by improving syntax, tooling, documentation & community in my opinion.

I believe I first read this idea in the book, Elixir in Action.

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Re:Elixir 1.5 released by mclehman on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @02:43PM (#14858958)
Personally, I'm a fan of the Perl philosophy: make the easy things easy and the hard things possible.
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Re:Elixir 1.5 released by pmarreck on Friday July 28, 2017 @12:57PM (#14875685)
I've heard this said about NixOS: It makes the easy things hard and the impossible things hard. :)
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