kevinjcliao

[1]http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2016/04/...

But where would you stop?

If Elixir makes it easier to write fast, concurrent for many people than Erlang, that totally can be discussed. The way you separate developer satisfaction/well-designed syntax from the VM it runs on top of is a separation I dispute.

Obviously these comparisons will never be 100% valid, but I think they make my point: Will you say that Scala is no different (or better) from Java? Will you say that Dart or Elm are no different (or better) from JavaScript? Simply because their underlying architecture is the same?

I think there is some hostility I am sensing from Erlang programmers where there is none given in return. I don't hate Erlang. I'm simply saying a language that can leverage the performance of the Erlang VM shouldn't be dismissed. Again, I never ever said I thought Elixir was better than Erlang. I was just responding to the parent commenter's assertion that all alchemists are pathetic.

Also, I think the implication that may have entered my writing was that because I personally found Elixir easier to learn (and it would be difficult to argue that I am alone in this), it is somehow a better language than Haskell, Erlang, and many other FP languages out there. If that was the implication you drew, I apologise for my a mistake in my writing. Since I learned Elixir, I'm now taking a course in Haskell at my college to better understand these programming languages. Just because I called Elixir incredible, doesn't mean I believe it's the end all be all language!

Again, thanks for your comment. I learned a lot from it.

I totally take your point that everything written in Elixir could be written in Erlang. That much is a fact. However, my point in saying they serve different uses is saying that better syntax in itself isn't nothing. If a language enables many people to grasp actor-based concurrency in an easy to understand fashion, can we reduce that to "just syntax"? I guess my point is that introducing syntactic clarity is in itself a massive feature that shouldn't be dismissed.

I hope that further explains my intent!

Erlang has its uses and Elixir has its uses. Dismissing Elixir's userbase as 'pathetic' is pretty rude and a disservice to a pretty incredible language. See the Discord article where they clearly demonstrate Elixir and Genstage are ready for production and can be used to write performant services.

I get that you really like Erlang and its quirks, but maybe there are more mature ways of expressing this love than calling Elixir users 'pathetic'.

This sort of 'configure your own' extremist software purity movement is great for some people, but if you want a setup that meets your needs 95% of the time, and works well, Spacemacs is great. I'm sure learning to configure your own vimrc has been a rewarding experience, but I don't think you can really argue it's a time saving measure.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/feb/19/schools-spied-...

Yeah sorry Eric is wrong on this one.