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Re:José Valim Reveals “Project Nx” (Numerical Elixir) [audio] by hinkley on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @01:27PM (#26080900)
I think it's important to note that as much really good work as TJ Holowaychuk did for the early NodeJS community, much of the speed of that work is that he was replicating the functionality of Ruby gems. All the lessons learned by the original authors come cheap, and you can do a good deal of head-down coding that way.

This also helps with recruiting, as the tools work similarly. I didn't spend a lot of time in Rails, and decided not to go that way again, but I did appreciate that I got to recycle some of that new thinking when I started writing Node.

Phoenix also seems to be designed to recruit Rails developers. You could do worse than porting missing tools and crates from Ruby, and as far as I'm aware nobody has nominated themselves as the TJ of Elixir.

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Re:José Valim Reveals “Project Nx” (Numerical Elixir) [audio] by dimitrios1 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @01:35PM (#26080987)
(assuming you confused CJ with TJ) This just is not true Having coworkers who personally knew TJ, he was a brilliant mind in his own right, and even if you think that is true, reimplementing functionality in another language but sticking with that languages current design patterns, working within the confines of that languages quirks to provide a cohesive, fluent, and extensible API is no small task.
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Re:José Valim Reveals “Project Nx” (Numerical Elixir) [audio] by RobertKerans on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @04:08PM (#26082398)
What the parent posted isn't a criticism, they never said it was a small task or that TJ Holowaychuck's work in the nascent Node ecosystem wasn't brilliant. Just that there is low-hanging fruit available when a new technology of the NodeJS type arrives. If someone has the drive and skill to build high-quality [re]implementations of a large number of key libraries, based on what is available in other (much more established) platform/s, then all being well, that person can do it quite rapidly as the problem space has already been mapped (which then in turn has a huge catalytic effect, particularly as all the APIs they create will follow common patterns).
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