fndex

Thanks for the advice.

Could you explain a bit more how you are using it?

>those other ecosystems still need Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis and GRPC, to get by

And what makes Elixir not need Kafka, Redis or GRPC?

Instead of Redis, you could use ETS for caching. But once you have 2+ instances of your app, you will need to have a centralized caching mechanism, otherwise, each instance will have its own ETS with its own memory, not sharing anything. Unless you decide to use Distributed Erlang and connect all the nodes of your application, which comes with a lot of trouble. Much easier to just use Redis.

And lets say you have multiple teams, each team has its own service(built with Elixir), and you need to have some async communication between those services. What native Elixir solution would you use instead of Kafka?

Same for GRPC. What's the alternative? Connecting all the nodes and using Erlang message-passing?

This is coming from someone who likes Elixir. Not much for its distributed systems features, but mostly because of the language design. I keep hearing everyone talk about how Erlang/Elixir gives everything out of the box and you don't need to worry about Queues, RPC or whatever... But in reality, people don't really recommend using Distributed Erlang that much, on most Elixir gigs I worked, they didn't use Distributed Elixir at all, just plain old Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis and GRPC.

> I actually find Clojure's syntax more confusing with all the punctuation they threw at it.

Could you give some examples? Or "all the punctuation" you are referring just to []?

Just get over it. Semantics are much more important than syntax. Every language will have some piece of syntax you won't like.

"The problem is not capitalism"... Proceeds to describe capitalism.

> I just wish there was a way to get the powerful to understand that it's not a one way relationship

I guarantee you, they do understand that. This is not a matter of changing individuals by teaching them and "getting them to understand". The system as a whole must be changed. The mechanisms that allow those people to exist in the first place must be destroyed.

FTEs rely on executives on the current system, but it doesn't have to be that way. The opposite is not true, tho. There are no executives without workers.

As Abraham Lincoln once said:

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”

That's valid, but saying that a product a few developers created for FREE, and made open source so anyone could copy and change is the "wrong thing to copy" is just disrespectful.

Bugzilla still exists. And if you think something is the wrong thing to copy, just copy the "right" thing yourself.

One could argue that C++ is much more complex and hard to write correct code.

There are multiple links in this thread showing how the media lied multiple times in the past, a whole documentary interviewing defectors who want to go back and telling how the South Korean Intelligence Service coerce and pay people to speak against the NK regime, but you probably didn't bother to open a single link and read about it.

You talk about science, yet, every anti-NK article sent in this thread are extremely poorly written and lack evidence to their claims. How is that "science"? Unless you are claiming that "science is when it matches my beliefs".

LOL. Alright then, Mr New York Times.