> I see a bright future for Elixir, and a breath of fresh air for Erlang.
Is Erlang really that much of a barrier? Erlang was a touch odd, but I didn't find the language itself that mind-bending. Wrapping my head around the proper way to structure things and the proper use of the OTP libraries was much more time-consuming. That level of architectural thought doesn't magically go away because you changed the language.
About the only thing I found irritating was a lack of language support for mutable hash tables, but I thought they fixed that at some point.
And Erlang's bit packing/unpacking borders on magical in terms of expressiveness and speed. I wish other languages would adopt it.
Is Erlang really that much of a barrier? Erlang was a touch odd, but I didn't find the language itself that mind-bending. Wrapping my head around the proper way to structure things and the proper use of the OTP libraries was much more time-consuming. That level of architectural thought doesn't magically go away because you changed the language.
About the only thing I found irritating was a lack of language support for mutable hash tables, but I thought they fixed that at some point.
And Erlang's bit packing/unpacking borders on magical in terms of expressiveness and speed. I wish other languages would adopt it.