davydog187
Joined 12 years ago
Joined 12 years ago
It is an excellent general purpose language that succeeds in a lot of domains.
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Filtering which search results? On hex.pm that’s irrelevant. On good “library name + elixir”
IMO this is really lazy in terms of naming and from a usage perspective, you get really tired of typing that out in code.
I think we can do better
I will be trying to travel more in 2026
Check out Anthony Accomazzo's post about Mini-Elixir, which does a great job breaking this down much further https://blog.sequinstream.com/why-we-built-mini-elixir/
However, Pythonx was originally created by a member of our team, Cocoa, who built it in her own free time. The Livebook team forked her project, conceptually, and released it.
I do think that it has the potential to be really great with continued investment
Luerl++ is not a valid module name :)
More seriously, I considered alternate names, but settled on this because it was short, literal, and given that its in the context of Elixir, makes sense when using it.
As you stated, the hope is to consolidate it into Luerl at some point
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