José Valim Reveals “Project Nx” (Numerical Elixir) [audio]

Re:José Valim Reveals “Project Nx” (Numerical Elixir) [audio] by spamizbad on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @12:59PM (#26080552)

What's interesting is my company hired a bunch of ex-ruby/rails people who transitioned over to Python. A year later, we tried to explore elixir and all those ex-ruby devs were adamantly against adopting it - they figured async python would be better. Very odd, since I figure it would be easier to adopt if you come from Ruby... but perhaps the Ruby community isn't that into functional programming?

It was very interesting experience being a long-time Pythonista having to be like "Isn't this awesome language with a Ruby-like syntax great???" and being told nah, let's just use async python by people who had spent years writing Ruby code.

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Re:José Valim Reveals “Project Nx” (Numerical Elixir) [audio] by jeremy_k on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @01:08PM (#26080659)

I guess it depends on the programmer. I've fallen in love with more functional style of coding. The idea of data in and data out makes me feel like it's so much easier to follow what is going on compared to having objects with side effects and mix ins and instance variables. I try to write as much of my Ruby / Rails avoiding the things I mentioned, but its pretty hard to avoid in a larger codebase.

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