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Arubis | 1 month ago

While this is a Cool Thing To See, I do wish things would go the other way—and have all the BI/ML/DS pipelines and workflows folks are building in Python and have them come to Elixir (and, as would follow, Elixir). I get where the momentum is, but having something functional, fault-tolerant, and concurrent underpinning work that’s naturally highly concurrent and error-prone feels like a _much_ more natural fit.

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cpursley|1 month ago

Agree, and Claude Code does very well with Elixir despite TS/Python getting all the hype:

https://youtu.be/iV1EcfZSdCM?si=KAJW26GVaBqZjR3M

This helps with keeping it on track writing idiomatic elixir and using good patterns: https://skills.sh/agoodway/.claude/elixir-genius

ammmir|1 month ago

> # WRONG: Elixir has no elsif

How much context is eaten up by skills that rehash what a SOTA model should already know?

Maybe token-wise, it's a wash: Elixir/OTP does a lot without third-party libs, which would require massive npm dependencies to achieve the same thing.