"Friendly for newcomers"? I tried to write something the other day, and had an Erlang developer friend to help me. The Elixir docs section just says "buy one of these books to get started", which is completely unacceptable, and we (mostly my friend, as I had no idea what anything is) spent an hour trying to figure out how to run a node, with Google not providing any useful answers.
That's as hostile to newcomers as it gets. Contrast this with the Rust book, that gets you from "I have no idea how anything works" to "hey I just wrote a small program!" in a few minutes.
That's as hostile to newcomers as it gets. Contrast this with the Rust book, that gets you from "I have no idea how anything works" to "hey I just wrote a small program!" in a few minutes.