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Re:Why Elixir? A Rebuttal to Common Misconceptions by arrowsmith on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @02:42PM (#44662552)
Imo this complaint is really overrated: https://arrowsmithlabs.com/blog/you-might-not-need-gradual-t...
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Re:Why Elixir? A Rebuttal to Common Misconceptions by Jonovono on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @06:11PM (#44664574)
> But honestly, I’ve always felt like this objection was overblown. I’ve got nothing against static typing; some of my best friends use statically-typed programming languages.

lol

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Re:Why Elixir? A Rebuttal to Common Misconceptions by vwwvwwv on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @08:52PM (#44665691)
I liked the article, but I found it a bit strange that it presented pure functions as a feature of Elixir rather than as a general good practice. Surely there's nothing particularly unique about Elixir in this regard compared to other languages?
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Re:Why Elixir? A Rebuttal to Common Misconceptions by spooky_deep on Thursday July 24, 2025 @04:44AM (#44668479)
There are auxiliary language features such as pattern matching that make pure functions viable at scale.
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