Elixir

[Noah Slater <ns...@tumbolia.org>]

Yo,

What do peeps make of this:

http://elixir-lang.org/

Thanks,

N

Re: Elixir

[Benoit Chesneau <bc...@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Noah Slater <ns...@tumbolia.org> wrote:
> Yo,
>
> What do peeps make of this:
>
> http://elixir-lang.org/
>
> Thanks,
>
> N

I thought it would be really coold to have a view server with that.
The only problem I see is the lack of sandboxing you have with
javascript.

- benoît

Re: Elixir

[Paul Davis <pa...@gmail.com>]

Hah!

I spent a few hours with it as well over the weekend wondering if I'd
fall in love and try rewriting core parts of CouchDB with it. There
are a number of good bits to Elixir that I liked. Its the first time I
saw an explanation of the Lispy quote/unqoute stuff that made me
understand what was going on but I ended up with the same general
response as Mahesh.

I will be keeping an eye on it for awhile to see what comes of it but
for the time being, I agree, "Why?" is a good description of my
feeling. The docs and code I read and played with gave me an uncanny
valley feeling for writing things in Erlang. Ie, "I understand how
this translates to Erlang and I can't justify not just writing the
Erlang and removing the added complexity of Elixir".

* Historical foot note for Bob Dionne, Elixir is the first Lisp
dialect that made me reconsider if all those parens really are that
silly... Well no. But maybe they had a decent idea or two in there
somewhere.

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya
<ma...@aptela.com> wrote:
>
> I spent a (somewhat painful) weekend messing around with it - it basically
> reads like a bit of an unholy cross of Javascript, Ruby, and erlang.  The
> "somewhat painful" bit is that both JS and Ruby give me hives (not as much
> as Java, but I 've suffered through *that* since 95).  Anyhow, the pseudo-OO
> nature is ok, if you like that sort of thing, and the 'language
> simplification" kinda sorta works, but I was basically left with an
> overwhelming feeling of "why?".
> There does seem to be an awful lot of "Make XXX work like Ruby" going on
> out there :-)
>
> Again, I'm a perl/erlang guy, so take *all* the above with a huge pinch of
> salt...
>
> cheers
> Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya
> CTO
>
> Vocalocity - Powering Small Business
> 1375 Peachtree St. NE, Suite 200, Atlanta, GA 30309 USA
> Office 312.281.9923
> mahesh@vocalocity.com  | www.vocalocity.com
>
>
>
> On Mar 2, 2012, at 2:15 PM, Noah Slater wrote:
>
> Yo,
>
> What do peeps make of this:
>
> http://elixir-lang.org/
>
> Thanks,
>
> N
>
>

Re: Elixir

[Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya <ma...@aptela.com>]

I spent a (somewhat painful) weekend messing around with it - it basically reads like a bit of an unholy cross of Javascript, Ruby, and erlang.  The "somewhat painful" bit is that both JS and Ruby give me hives (not as much as Java, but I 've suffered through *that* since 95).  Anyhow, the pseudo-OO nature is ok, if you like that sort of thing, and the 'language simplification" kinda sorta works, but I was basically left with an overwhelming feeling of "why?". 
There does seem to be an awful lot of "Make XXX work like Ruby" going on out there :-)

Again, I'm a perl/erlang guy, so take *all* the above with a huge pinch of salt...

cheers
Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya
CTO
 
Vocalocity - Powering Small Business
1375 Peachtree St. NE, Suite 200, Atlanta, GA 30309 USA
Office 312.281.9923
mahesh@vocalocity.com  | www.vocalocity.com

    


On Mar 2, 2012, at 2:15 PM, Noah Slater wrote:

> Yo,
> 
> What do peeps make of this:
> 
> http://elixir-lang.org/
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> N