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Re:Elixir in Depth – Reading and personal notes by christophilus on Thursday August 17, 2017 @11:30AM (#15037618)
That's good to hear. It felt kind of arbitrary the handful of times I tinkered with it.

Can I ask what you use on the front-end (if anything)?

Re:Elixir in Depth – Reading and personal notes by mischov on Thursday August 17, 2017 @11:59AM (#15037941)
(If you're asking about what flavor of Javascript I use) I just use plain JS for the bits of JS I need, but nothing I have been working on needs a heavy front-end.

There's not really an Elixir equivalent of Clojurescript to Clojure (there is an Elixirscript, but it's a work in progress and I'm curious whether it can ever capture the nice experience of using the Erlang VM). I've seen interest in the Elixir community in Elm and Bucklescript(OCaml) and other compiled-to-js languages, but I think a lot of people just use JS.

Re:Elixir in Depth – Reading and personal notes by innocentoldguy on Thursday August 17, 2017 @03:35PM (#15040073)
I know you weren't asking me, but Elm on the front end, communicating to Elixir on the back end, has made my life so much nicer. I loathe JavaScript, and this Elm/Elixir combination has made me like web programming again.