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Re:Beam/Erlang/Elixir Concept Explanations by joelbluminator on Monday September 13, 2021 @01:13AM (#28508055)
> But I fear its not for me. At least not yet.

What do you mean not yet - what do you think is gonna change?

> pure functional programming is too much mental overhead for me

This means Elixir is just not for you, I don't think you have to be in an endless eternal debate about it. There is quite the disconnect between Hacker News hype and the real world sometimes.

Re:Beam/Erlang/Elixir Concept Explanations by halotrope on Monday September 13, 2021 @01:34AM (#28508138)
As said. If the tooling and commercial language support would be better I might give it another shot. Also this was in the context of writing web software with deadlines. Given the time I would probably immerse myself deeper. I specifically wrote this post to give a bit of warning since I feel on HN it is considered tres chic and I would have liked to read a bit a of balanced criticism before discovering it myself. Not taking sides in functional vs OOP here.