Re:A command-line weather app built using Elixir
by supernintendo on Thursday May 07, 2015 @11:54AM
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I'm sorry if this comes across as negative, but this is an example of using the wrong tool for the job, IMO.
I love Erlang and Elixir because BEAM gives me easy concurrency, metaprogramming and best of all, fault tolerance via supervisors. For a service that I need to stay alive, this is great. For a simple command line utility, I'd lean more toward a compiled language like Go, Haskell, Common Lisp, etc.
I love Erlang and Elixir because BEAM gives me easy concurrency, metaprogramming and best of all, fault tolerance via supervisors. For a service that I need to stay alive, this is great. For a simple command line utility, I'd lean more toward a compiled language like Go, Haskell, Common Lisp, etc.