Tag: erlang
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Fun with Gleam
This’ll be a short blog post, but Gleam (v0.25.0) is an Erlang OTP language, akin to Elixir (in fact, recently added full compatibility with Elixir packages). It’s been fun so far. I think the error messages are great and the functional style language is a lot of fun to wrap my brain around. I have…
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Why Elixir? ⚗️🧪
Elixir, other than being an alchemical cure-all, does double duty as a programming language that’s good for fast, resilient, parallel computing. It has all the syntactical charm of Ruby, with the power of an alien (actually Swedish, but close enough) technology. But why am I learning Elixir now, after so many years of Ruby? To…