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I tried it, and it brings little. It got new syntax, but syntax alone is not important. I can build with erlang, so why would i pick elixir? I used erlang for almost 20 years, and never saw the idea of elixir.

Gleam on the other hand has a actual type system. It still young but i can see what it offers.

So syntax for me is totally pointless and just noise.

I guess elixir is a nice lang for the niche of erlang. But its dynamic (the "type system" is really meh at best) its not suited for real world use.

If i go full dynamic, why not use pure erlang instead?

There is also MLs that have the same idea, but with less implementation, as a lisp is something you hack in a weekend. An working ML not, as it takes way more effort.

Lisps have many fantastic ideas, but are really hard to read. Lisp code is what we had before perl guys went "hold my beer".

I know its just syntax, and it usually does not matter, untill it does. I did some clojure a long time ago, and before that some CL, and god, i cant understand my own old code. Contrast that to some language that has syntax i can read it still, years later. Go being the prime example of write once, read a decade later.

There is gleam that is popular, and not backed by a huge company. Then there is also lisette for Go, thats very similar but targets Go instead of the beam.

New languages have space, and its just stupid "to stick to the only one i ever tried", then you just end like a PHP dev who just refuses to learn anything other than PHP.

Odin looks very Go like, oddly it did the same design flaw, and forgot about proper error handling, and it seems to also do the same mistake zig did, and use llvm (so you get those nice 20min compile times). Odin also seem to lack adts?

I guess a gamedev niche language can fly with these restrictions, but for a new general purpose langauge these are a must have.

Heres my guesstimate on the future:

Companies like Anthopic will be using the same model as anyone else. They just bring value in having a fast datacenter and agent.

Its stupid to even think that a general model lile opus would be the real value.

Models age fast, new ones come along, and the end user wont care "whos model it is" just that it is fast and sharp.

Does homebrew still do that insane thing when you want to upgrade a single package it tell you "hold my beer" and starts installing postgres and some obscure python version?

It was unclear to me, is this a native replacement for docker? I like docker (on mac) but its quite the resource hog.

I usually run like a db, redis, maybe something like rabbitmq/zeromq and have a app that uses these services (makefile/docker-compose).

I would love to switch if this in fact is a lightweight replacement.

GitHub Is Down 1 month ago

People seem to miss entirely that this is not (only) some slop code that makes github go down, but its the fact that they get 100x the number of requests since AI tools came to the devs daily workflow.

GitHub Is Down 1 month ago

That, but also AI tools have made github req/res go up by 100x. There is simply too muvh AI generated traffic.

I k ow for a fact that ANY other platform would fail faster than github if they had the same volume of http requests.