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Re:Why Elixir (2014) on Friday August 18, 2017 @04:43AM (#15044558)
Yeah, it's like Lisp macros. Actually, Elixir code is AST+sugar as https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/syntax-reference.html shows.
Re:Why Elixir (2014) on Friday August 18, 2017 @03:45AM (#15044313)
It's actually Erlang with Ruby-like syntax.
Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @04:07AM (#14750911)
It's 5M Concurrent Users. And Google-size services can't be built with just a language. It needs much more work to do.
Re:Elixir Design Goals (2013) on Saturday December 24, 2016 @07:44AM (#13249584)
I just wonder what's it's design goals in the future. I noticed that Elixir team seems working hard on something like GenStage and so on.