Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from the trenches

Re:Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from ... by dudul on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @10:52AM (#18656105)

My sentiment exactly :)

I'm grateful that Elixir is putting Erlang under the spotlights. That it is doing a lot to conveying all the Erlang/OTP concepts and practices. But each time I use it - and I know I may be the odd duck based on slack, blog posts, etc - I feel like the syntax is so complex, with 4 different manners to write the same thing. And I'm not talking about "ways to do things", but literally syntactic ways to do the same thing.

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Re:Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from ... by josevalim on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @11:40AM (#18656517)

> literally syntactic ways to do the same thing.

Yup! They are not that many though (6 rules) and they are all documented here: https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/syntax-reference.html#syntactic-su...

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Re:Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from ... by dnautics on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @12:05PM (#18656728)

Does the shorthand lambda belong on this list?

Thanks for all the work!

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Re:Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from ... by josevalim on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @12:43PM (#18657065)

Oh, that's a very good question! It doesn't because the list linked above is about syntactical equivalence and the shorthand `&` has its own AST. But now you made me wonder if we should add it to the list anyway (with a caveat) as it would make the list more complete.

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