<story><title>Elixir v1.4.0 released</title><url>https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.4.0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sotojuan</author><text>My favorite part about Elixir is that it doesn&amp;#x27;t try to reinvent the wheel. It&amp;#x27;s not an untested, trendy new paradigm or tool. It&amp;#x27;s based on decades of Erlang&amp;#x2F;BEAM&amp;#x2F;OTP experience and Ruby&amp;#x2F;Rails&amp;#x2F;last 10~ years of programming ergonomics. The only things that are added are those that actually add to the experience.&lt;p&gt;An example: A large part of the Erlang standard library is not translated in Elixir. Instead, you call Erlang methods with a seamless interop. José &amp;amp; co. understand that there&amp;#x27;s no need to reinvent the wheel and no benefit in another abstraction. I like that.&lt;p&gt;My least favorite part about Elixir is that it has become a &amp;quot;trendy&amp;quot; language among the web crowd. While the community is overall great, there&amp;#x27;s always a loud minority of &amp;quot;beginner experts&amp;quot; both claiming it&amp;#x27;s the best thing ever and deriding those for using other tools. I&amp;#x27;ve seen a lot of random, unwarranted Rails bashing and Elixir shilling (never from a team member or community leader though!).</text></comment>
<story><title>Elixir v1.4.0 released</title><url>https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.4.0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>themgt</author><text>Coming from Ruby, Elixir feels like a powerful, beautiful language with a surprisingly radical but ultimately simple approach to concurrency thanks to Erlang&amp;#x2F;BEAM, and Phoenix is like Rails 2006, as far as the framework to sell Elixir&amp;#x27;s advantages to the masses. It&amp;#x27;s very powerful and scaling &amp;quot;just works&amp;quot;. All Elixir needs now is a viable ElixirScript that can compile down to JS&amp;#x2F;WASM, and along with Nerves it&amp;#x27;s ready for world domination. ;)</text></comment>