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<body><div>On Fri, Feb 26, 2016, at 23:00, Andrew Berman wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hey Adam,<br></div>
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<div>Good to hear that your experience is positive. Did you settle on Elixir because you were writing it for a Ruby shop? In other words, did you choose it because you have a team of Ruby devs and thought it might be easier to migrate them?<br></div>
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<div>I was looking for a job with an opportunity to learn something new, I guess I just needed a change. And I really wanted to stay in my OTP comfort zone. The company I ended up working for was looking for Elixir devs for the reason you've mentioned.<br></div>
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<div><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 1:41 PM Adam Rutkowski <<a href="mailto:hq@mtod.org">hq@mtod.org</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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<div><div>Hi Andrew,<br></div>
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<div>As a die hard, long time Erlang fan, who recently switched to Elixir full-time I can probably share my perspective.<br></div>
<div>For the past 6 or 7 months I have been writing Elixir code for a Ruby shop seeking their way out ;-)<br></div>
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<div>At the beginning it was extremely tough. Needless to say, I have never written a single line in Ruby before, <br></div>
<div>I was unfamiliar with Rails (some of the concepts/terminology obviously was transferred to Phoenix), <br></div>
<div>and everything seemed just plain <span style="line-height:1.25;">weird since I got very accustomed to the rough obviousness of Erlang/OTP.</span><br></div>
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<div>The switch wasn't easy for me -- at least I had the OTP part figured out.<br></div>
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<div><span style="line-height:1.25;">But as I soon found out, expecting Elixir to be "Ruby on BEAM" is an oversimplification.</span><br></div>
<div><span style="line-height:1.25;">Today I think it's a very nicely designed language combining more than just that. </span><br></div>
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<div><span style="line-height:1.25;">Plug is brilliant, definitely brings Clojure's Ring to mind. Think easily accessible, composable cowboy middlewares.</span><br></div>
<div>They're really fun to build and easy to test.<br></div>
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<div><span style="line-height:1.25;">Ecto is *the* killer app. Being able to abstract my postgres schema with ease is something I always</span><br></div>
<div>craved in the Erlang world (not to mention the gazillion of epgsql forks).<br></div>
<div>Today I can use postgres almost to its full potential. PG views transparently map to predefined<br></div>
<div>structs, arrays & maps (jsonp) are supported via type casting, the query interface is again, <br></div>
<div>composable and powerful (borrows from LINQ) and doesn't do any magic you would expect<br></div>
<div>from popular, "classic" ORMs. Migrations works as expected, rolling back a schema change requires<br></div>
<div>no effort.<br></div>
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<div>Protocols (again, Clojure?) and modules, that can be aliased and selectively imported<br></div>
<div>allow you to nicely organise large codebases into logical chunks of responsibilities.<br></div>
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<div>In general, I fear not anymore. Elixir is well tested, carefully crafted and evolves very dynamically.<br></div>
<div>I still love Erlang, but I don't think I made a mistake of trying Elixir out in the real world. <br></div>
<div>I like its expressiveness and the fact that there's still OTP available for me to use.<span style="line-height:1.25;"></span><br></div>
<div><span style="line-height:1.25;">It's fun.</span><br></div>
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<div>Cheers & happy hacking,<br></div>
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<div>On Fri, Feb 26, 2016, at 19:28, Andrew Berman wrote:<br></div>
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<div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hey Fellow Erlangers,<br></div>
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<div>I was curious if any of you guys have switched or are contemplating using Elixir for your next project. I've been programming Erlang for a while now, but I'm about to start a new project and wanted to see where other Erlang devs stood on it.<br></div>
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<div>Thanks,<br></div>
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<div>Andrew<br></div>
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