Re:How to Fix Slow Code in Ruby
by cutler on Thursday May 14, 2020 @08:04PM
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Another point worth mentioning is that Elixir is only optimised for lightweight processes. If you have to do any heavy lifting you're better off with Go or a JVM language, not Elixir. Forget math with Elixir too - it doesn't even have an arrary/vector data structure of its own. Instead it relies on Erlang's hacky implementation.
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Which is exactly what many Elixir advocates say.
Contrary to what you and others try and insinuate, we are very aware that the language is not a universal tech.
So yet again, you guys are smacking at a strawman that's very easy to beat. It's quite tiring to argue with stuff that I never said (and most of Elixir's community haven't said it either). But I think I'll give up for now. :)
That's not been my experience. Whenever I have mentioned the lack of arrays/vectors in the past I have been inundated with Elixir devotees asking me why I need them when Elixir has maps with numeric keys at which point I just throw up my hands in despair.
Not denying it. Every community has bad apples.
It's not charitable to make assumptions for the entire community -- or the tech stack itself -- based on them however.
Seems like you've been chatting with the wrong people. A lot of the ElixirForum regulars -- me included -- are very practical and realistic folk who use several languages all the time.