Elixir web development 101: collaborative todolist with realtime updates

Re:Elixir web development 101: collaborative todolist with r... by pythonaut_16 on Friday October 27, 2017 @12:44PM (#15570029)

So what you're really saying is that green threads are a good thing.

One of the biggest strengths of Erlang (and Elixir by extension) is that they take the approach of finding practical solutions to real problems.

Sure, theoretically there might be a better solution than green threads, but like you said, we're still waiting for that better solution 30 years later. In the meantime, Erlang has been powering highly reliable and concurrent systems for ~30 years now.

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Re:Elixir web development 101: collaborative todolist with r... by digitalzombie on Saturday October 28, 2017 @03:31AM (#15574329)

NodeJS people will tell you their solution is better.

Which I don't believe. Throwing away thread and managing it yourself and playing the game of will this code block the event loop is ludicrous.

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