Re:Elixir 1.5 released
by pmarreck on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @11:03PM
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What are functional languages, as a group, "absolutely awful" at?
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Re:Elixir 1.5 released
by banachtarski on Monday July 31, 2017 @01:06AM
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Low level code. Drivers, interfacing on COM/serial/USB ports, graphics programming or anything that requires more finely tuned data structures you have to manage yourself, low latency work where you can't afford to have a random GC happen at a bad point in the run loop...
Lots of things.