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Re:Why Elixir? A Rebuttal to Common Misconceptions by bccdee on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @02:01PM (#44662120)
Okay? But "the features you need would have taken effort to implement, so we didn't implement them" is not a very good sales pitch when you're trying to convince me to use your tool to do my job.
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Re:Why Elixir? A Rebuttal to Common Misconceptions by throwawaymaths on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @03:34PM (#44663075)
ok. don't use it then. but be aware: your attitude is why things get stuck in (sometimes really awful) local minima in tech.
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Re:Why Elixir? A Rebuttal to Common Misconceptions by bccdee on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @03:59PM (#44663334)
Any tool that justifies the choice not to implement an important and highly-requested feature with "effort is a finite resource" alone is not viable for serious development work. It's not prioritizing, it's a refusal to prioritize.
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Re:Why Elixir? A Rebuttal to Common Misconceptions by throwawaymaths on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @07:58PM (#44665386)
you probably shouldn't bulldoze into a situation with assertions like you've made with such a limited grasp of the history at play.
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