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Re:Elixir – Why the dot (when calling anonymous functions)? by rdevsrex on Monday August 14, 2023 @02:04PM (#37124360)
Interesting, will check out. I am still evaluating Gleam, a language that's targets beam, but the compiler is written in Rust. It has actual strong typing, and I rather like it's Rust like syntax.
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Re:Elixir – Why the dot (when calling anonymous functions)? by eggy on Monday August 14, 2023 @02:30PM (#37124733)
I was too until they strayed from the more Standard ML-like syntax to Rust-like syntax all for trying not to alienate the Algol crowd and Rust aficionados. For popularity. I like APL, BQN, and J so I'm not swayed by it.
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Re:Elixir – Why the dot (when calling anonymous functions)? by bnchrch on Monday August 14, 2023 @03:28PM (#37125671)
I really like Gleam, and I am a huge fan of more being built on the EVM.

Personally I want the EVM to (eventually) get the same level of adoption and mindshare as the JVM.

And currently wider Elixir use/education seems like the path to that.

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Re:Elixir – Why the dot (when calling anonymous functions)? by comex on Monday August 14, 2023 @06:47PM (#37127724)
EVM is the Ethereum Virtual Machine. You mean BEAM, right?
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Re:Elixir – Why the dot (when calling anonymous functions)? by yellowapple on Monday August 14, 2023 @11:04PM (#37129686)
EVM stood for "Erlang Virtual Machine" (of which BEAM is one implementation) before Ethereum even existed.
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Re:Elixir – Why the dot (when calling anonymous functions)? by octacat on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @09:01AM (#37133431)
Except majority of people uses BEAM name for the last 13 years. Erlang VM or Erlang Virtual Machine is ok too. EVM name is just super not-popular, idk why.
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Re:Elixir – Why the dot (when calling anonymous functions)? by yellowapple on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @10:01PM (#37156246)
Erlang's creators use EVM, which is where I learned it from. Not sure why it didn't catch on, either; I guess for a long-enough while BEAM was the only EVM implementation in common use, so it became the Xerox™ or Velcro™ of Erlang virtual machines lol
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