Re:An Elixir adoption success story
by erinan on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @08:16AM
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I just switched from a Python (with mypy) codebase to a full-time Elixir position a few weeks ago.
I thought I'd miss typing but due to the functional nature of Elixir and its pattern-matching, I found out that the code is much simpler to grok.
In this case I think that having readable idiomatic code trumps the need for typing.
If needed there is type hinting with @spec but it's not used very often (or mostly in libraries?).
I can definitely say that it's very fun and productive to work in a Phoenix mono-repo. The development experience is great and I'm really having fun programming again.
I thought I'd miss typing but due to the functional nature of Elixir and its pattern-matching, I found out that the code is much simpler to grok.
In this case I think that having readable idiomatic code trumps the need for typing.
If needed there is type hinting with @spec but it's not used very often (or mostly in libraries?).
I can definitely say that it's very fun and productive to work in a Phoenix mono-repo. The development experience is great and I'm really having fun programming again.