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Discussion on: What coding language do you want to learn this year, and why?

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Sergey Kislyakov • Edited

Elixir. I've tried it 2 years ago and it didn't feel good. But now I'm having a great time with it. I was stuck with understanding that Elixir processes are not the same as OS processes, once I got it and that each dependency in most cases is a mini application itself, it actually feels nice to do stuff in Elixir.

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Andy Piper

Ah this is interesting, I have a former coworker who wrote a lot of Erlang, and when I was at Pivotal there was a log of Erlang in RabbitMQ that was in our portfolio - Elixir (and Erlang by association, I know they are different languages!) is not something I've explored yet. One for the list...

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Andy Piper

somewhat related, this was just mentioned in a Slack group I use...