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Re:I wrote the BEAM book (2025) by dimamik on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @10:50AM (#50454830)
I've been building with Elixir for the last 5 years, and comparing to Python or NodeJS - it's a breath of fresh air. Such decent developer experience, so easy to understand how your system works because of actors and well-defined primitives. If you haven't - you definitely should give it a try!

In an AI era I feel like the tiny amount of Elixir code in comparison with other languages, but all that code having higher signal to noise ration vastly contributed to how good LLM-written Elixir code is. Especially in a well-maintainted codebase that relies on a decent db schema and Oban.

Re:I wrote the BEAM book (2025) by fridder on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @11:00AM (#50454947)
I think the new typing system will also help immensely. LLMs do like their nice clear error messages