Nicholas Charriere
@pushix
Erlang and Elixir aren't as popular as other modern languages because they don't have a marketing giant (google->golang, mozilla->rust) behind them, but you should check them, they're insane. https://github.com/stevana/armstrong-distributed-systems/blob/main/docs/erlang-is-not-about.md https://i.imgur.com/9g6CMqK.png
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Nicholas Charriere
@pushix
Most great programming languages "win" for the wrong reasons. Java got pushed by Oracle hard in entreprise Python had great scientific computation libs (actually they are in fortran but python has great NIFs), won academia and ML Google pushed Golang (arguably Go is still good tbh, Dart failed and also had google)
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Daniel Lombraña
@teleyinex.eth
I think we are missing here DX. To be honest I think lots of languages get a lot of traction because they have good DX. Python being one of them. Perl, Haskell Ada, etc. are great but their DX is not on par and that's why I think they don't get the attention that other languages do.
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Landon
@lndnnft
I love Elixir so so so much
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pentacle
@pentacle
was fortunate to have met Joe at code sync in 2018 and heard him speak alongside Jeremy Rushton of Tiddlywiki - was a great talk https://codesync.global/media/intertwingling-the-tiddlywiki-with-erlang-joe-armstrong-jeremy-ruston/
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Yakov K.
@purplenoodlesoop
Excuse me, do you have time to talk about our lord and savior, Haskell?
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Stephen
@stephenlacy
I love building with elixir - but rarely turn to it for new products as the lack of well maintained packages leads to a fragmented ecosystem
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