<story><title>Lisp-Flavoured Erlang</title><url>http://lfe.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>softbuilder</author><text>Every time I see these (LFE, Elixir, perhaps others) mentioned I feel sad that people don&amp;#x27;t seem to see the beauty in the Erlang language itself. Learning Erlang was a watershed moment for me and it had little to do with the actor model or OTP.&lt;p&gt;That should not be meant to take away from these other projects that do interesting things. It just seems like people needlessly avoid Erlang because it&amp;#x27;s unfamiliar and they miss something amazing in the process.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sitkack</author><text>Welp, I am pretty sure the creator of LFE &amp;quot;gets&amp;quot; Erlang, as it is Robert Virding [1]&lt;p&gt;Pattern matching and immutability are pretty sweet aren&amp;#x27;t they? So is homoiconicity and macros.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;rvirding&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;rvirding&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Lisp-Flavoured Erlang</title><url>http://lfe.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>softbuilder</author><text>Every time I see these (LFE, Elixir, perhaps others) mentioned I feel sad that people don&amp;#x27;t seem to see the beauty in the Erlang language itself. Learning Erlang was a watershed moment for me and it had little to do with the actor model or OTP.&lt;p&gt;That should not be meant to take away from these other projects that do interesting things. It just seems like people needlessly avoid Erlang because it&amp;#x27;s unfamiliar and they miss something amazing in the process.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fenollp</author><text>IMO Erlang needs Elixir’s `|&amp;gt;` and `with` pipes. I voiced my opinion on the ML and kind of started working on it!
I need &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bugs.erlang.org&amp;#x2F;plugins&amp;#x2F;servlet&amp;#x2F;mobile#issue&amp;#x2F;ERL-639&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bugs.erlang.org&amp;#x2F;plugins&amp;#x2F;servlet&amp;#x2F;mobile#issue&amp;#x2F;ERL-639&lt;/a&gt; fixed first.&lt;p&gt;I find Erlang a harder tool to shoot yourself with than Elixir yet there are definitely some things it could improve on, and not only at the language level (always running xref on compilation would be nice).</text></comment>