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Hazmi Irfan • Edited

Elixir is one language I like to use. It brings new life to BEAM(Something like JVM). Usually you would use Erlang for BEAM but for me it's syntax is really hard to understand and intimidating.

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Winston Puckett

That's right! Isn't Elixir built to handle concurrency at HUGE scale? I think I saw a documentary about it, but I can't remember if I'm remembering that right. I just visited your link and I'm really intrigued by it being dynamic and functional. I hadn't heard of a language doing that before.

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Hazmi Irfan

Yeah that is one of the major selling point. Discord is one of the company that I know that uses it in production.