Re:From Node to Ruby on Rails
by Toutouxc on Thursday December 16, 2021 @09:41AM
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I'm also a Rails dev, currently doing Advent of Code in Elixir, I haven't tried Phoenix yet, but writing Elixir feels a lot like writing Ruby for the first time. It's the same kind of sexy, of-course-you-can-do-that feeling.
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Re:From Node to Ruby on Rails
by AlchemistCamp on Thursday December 16, 2021 @10:29AM
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For me Elixir didn't feel too much like Ruby, but Phoenix sure felt a lot like Rails. YMMV since Phoenix has gradually become more and more of its own thing than it felt like in 2016 when I learned it.
There's really nothing I miss about Ruby for web dev and Elixir feels like a complete win to me these days. Ruby is still far nicer for unix-y scripting, though.
That's really funny, my perception of Elixir is generally the sentiment "of course you can't do that". (that's a good thing).
Funny, you're also right. Of course you can't do that weird hacky thing you could totally do in Ruby but maybe shouldn't.
I meant something more like "of course there's a function for that with the name you'd expect".