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Alternatives to Elixir

Golang, Erlang, Clojure, Ruby, and Rust are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Elixir.
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What is Elixir and what are its top alternatives?

Elixir leverages the Erlang VM, known for running low-latency, distributed and fault-tolerant systems, while also being successfully used in web development and the embedded software domain.
Elixir is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.
Elixir is an open source tool with 22.8K GitHub stars and 3.2K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Elixir's open source repository on GitHub

Top Alternatives to Elixir

  • Golang
    Golang

    Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language. ...

  • Erlang
    Erlang

    Some of Erlang's uses are in telecoms, banking, e-commerce, computer telephony and instant messaging. Erlang's runtime system has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. OTP is set of Erlang libraries and design principles providing middle-ware to develop these systems. ...

  • Clojure
    Clojure

    Clojure is designed to be a general-purpose language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming. Clojure is a compiled language - it compiles directly to JVM bytecode, yet remains completely dynamic. Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, and shares with Lisp the code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system. ...

  • Ruby
    Ruby

    Ruby is a language of careful balance. Its creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) to form a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming. ...

  • Rust
    Rust

    Rust is a systems programming language that combines strong compile-time correctness guarantees with fast performance. It improves upon the ideas of other systems languages like C++ by providing guaranteed memory safety (no crashes, no data races) and complete control over the lifecycle of memory. ...

  • Haskell
    Haskell

    It is a general purpose language that can be used in any domain and use case, it is ideally suited for proprietary business logic and data analysis, fast prototyping and enhancing existing software environments with correct code, performance and scalability. ...

  • Python
    Python

    Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best. ...

  • Scala
    Scala

    Scala is an acronym for “Scalable Language”. This means that Scala grows with you. You can play with it by typing one-line expressions and observing the results. But you can also rely on it for large mission critical systems, as many companies, including Twitter, LinkedIn, or Intel do. To some, Scala feels like a scripting language. Its syntax is concise and low ceremony; its types get out of the way because the compiler can infer them. ...

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    High-performance
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    Simple, minimal syntax
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    Fun to write
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    Easy concurrency support via goroutines
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    Fast compilation times
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    Goroutines
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    Statically linked binaries that are simple to deploy
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    Simple compile build/run procedures
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    Backed by google
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    Great community
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    Garbage collection built-in
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    Built-in Testing
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    Excellent tools - gofmt, godoc etc
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    Elegant and concise like Python, fast like C
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    Awesome to Develop
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    Used for Docker
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    Flexible interface system
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    Deploy as executable
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    Great concurrency pattern
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    Open-source Integration
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    Easy to read
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    Fun to write and so many feature out of the box
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    Go is God
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    Easy to deploy
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    Powerful and simple
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    Its Simple and Heavy duty
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    Best language for concurrency
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    Concurrency
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    Rich standard library
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    Safe GOTOs
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    Clean code, high performance
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    Easy setup
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    High performance
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    Simplicity, Concurrency, Performance
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    Hassle free deployment
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    Single binary avoids library dependency issues
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    Gofmt
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    Cross compiling
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    Simple, powerful, and great performance
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    Used by Giants of the industry
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    Garbage Collection
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    Very sophisticated syntax
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    Excellent tooling
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    WYSIWYG
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    Keep it simple and stupid
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    Widely used
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    Kubernetes written on Go
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    No generics
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    Operator goto
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    Looks not fancy, but promoting pragmatic idioms
CONS OF GOLANG
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    You waste time in plumbing code catching errors
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    Verbose
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    Packages and their path dependencies are braindead
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    Google's documentations aren't beginer friendly
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    Dependency management when working on multiple projects
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    Automatic garbage collection overheads
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    Uncommon syntax
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    Type system is lacking (no generics, etc)
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    Collection framework is lacking (list, set, map)
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    Best programming language
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    A failed experiment to combine c and python

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Conor Myhrvold
Tech Brand Mgr, Office of CTO at Uber · | 44 upvotes · 9.5M views

How Uber developed the open source, end-to-end distributed tracing Jaeger , now a CNCF project:

Distributed tracing is quickly becoming a must-have component in the tools that organizations use to monitor their complex, microservice-based architectures. At Uber, our open source distributed tracing system Jaeger saw large-scale internal adoption throughout 2016, integrated into hundreds of microservices and now recording thousands of traces every second.

Here is the story of how we got here, from investigating off-the-shelf solutions like Zipkin, to why we switched from pull to push architecture, and how distributed tracing will continue to evolve:

https://eng.uber.com/distributed-tracing/

(GitHub Pages : https://www.jaegertracing.io/, GitHub: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger)

Bindings/Operator: Python Java Node.js Go C++ Kubernetes JavaScript OpenShift C# Apache Spark

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Nick Parsons
Building cool things on the internet 🛠️ at Stream · | 35 upvotes · 3.2M views

Winds 2.0 is an open source Podcast/RSS reader developed by Stream with a core goal to enable a wide range of developers to contribute.

We chose JavaScript because nearly every developer knows or can, at the very least, read JavaScript. With ES6 and Node.js v10.x.x, it’s become a very capable language. Async/Await is powerful and easy to use (Async/Await vs Promises). Babel allows us to experiment with next-generation JavaScript (features that are not in the official JavaScript spec yet). Yarn allows us to consistently install packages quickly (and is filled with tons of new tricks)

We’re using JavaScript for everything – both front and backend. Most of our team is experienced with Go and Python, so Node was not an obvious choice for this app.

Sure... there will be haters who refuse to acknowledge that there is anything remotely positive about JavaScript (there are even rants on Hacker News about Node.js); however, without writing completely in JavaScript, we would not have seen the results we did.

#FrameworksFullStack #Languages

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    Real time, distributed applications
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    Fault tolerance
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    Soft real-time
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    Open source
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    Functional programming
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    Message passing
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    Immutable data
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    Works as expected
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    Facebook chat uses it at backend
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    Practical
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    Knowledgeable community
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    Bullets included
CONS OF ERLANG
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    Another major decision was to adopt Elixir and Phoenix Framework - the DX (Developer eXperience) is pretty similar to what we know from RoR, but this tech is running on the top of rock-solid Erlang platform which is powering planet-scale telecom solutions for 20+ years. So we're getting pretty much the best from both worlds: minimum friction & smart conventions that eliminate the excessive boilerplate AND highly concurrent EVM (Erlang's Virtual Machine) that makes all the scalability problems vanish. The transition was very smooth - none of Ruby developers we had decided to leave because of Elixir. What is more, we kept recruiting Ruby developers w/o any requirement regarding Elixir proficiency & we still were able to educate them internally in almost no time. Obviously Elixir comes with some more tools in the stack: Credo , Hex , AppSignal (required to properly monitor BEAM apps).

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    Hello everyone, I plan on building a platform that supports 100s of forums out of the box, it would give the user the ability to create forums, where other users can comment, post images, and videos (the size of videos would be limited). Each forum would have the ability to trend. I have been doing a lot of research and I have arrived at Golang and Erlang as the backend languages and PostgreSQL as the DB. Erlang would be used for the routing of chats and messages, while Go would be used to manage the forums. We would also be implementing a one on one chat system like WhatsApp chat, where users can add contacts.

    Please I would like to know if the languages picked are appropriate for this project. Suggestions would be appreciated.

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    Clojure

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      Persistent data structures
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      Concise syntax
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      jvm-based language
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      Concurrency
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      Interactive repl
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      Code is data
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      Open source
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      Lazy data structures
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      Macros
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      Functional
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      Simplistic
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      Immutable by default
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      Excellent collections
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      Fast-growing community
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      Multiple host languages
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      Simple (not easy!)
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      Because it's really fun to use
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      Addictive
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      Community
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      Web friendly
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      Rapid development
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      It creates Reusable code
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      Minimalist
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      Programmable programming language
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      Java interop
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      Regained interest in programming
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      Compiles to JavaScript
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      Share a lot of code with clojurescript/use on frontend
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      EDN
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      Clojurescript
    CONS OF CLOJURE
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      Cryptic stacktraces
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      Need to wrap basically every java lib
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      Toxic community
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      Good code heavily relies on local conventions
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      Tonns of abandonware
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      Slow application startup
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      Usable only with REPL
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      Hiring issues
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      It's a lisp
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      Bad documented libs
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      Macros are overused by devs
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      Tricky profiling
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      IDE with high learning curve
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      Configuration bolierplate
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      Conservative community
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      Have no good and fast fmt

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    Stitch is run entirely on AWS. All of our transactional databases are run with Amazon RDS, and we rely on Amazon S3 for data persistence in various stages of our pipeline. Our product integrates with Amazon Redshift as a data destination, and we also use Redshift as an internal data warehouse (powered by Stitch, of course).

    The majority of our services run on stateless Amazon EC2 instances that are managed by AWS OpsWorks. We recently introduced Kubernetes into our infrastructure to run the scheduled jobs that execute Singer code to extract data from various sources. Although we tend to be wary of shiny new toys, Kubernetes has proven to be a good fit for this problem, and its stability, strong community and helpful tooling have made it easy for us to incorporate into our operations.

    While we continue to be happy with Clojure for our internal services, we felt that its relatively narrow adoption could impede Singer's growth. We chose Python both because it is well suited to the task, and it seems to have reached critical mass among data engineers. All that being said, the Singer spec is language agnostic, and integrations and libraries have been developed in JavaScript, Go, and Clojure.

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    I adopted Clojure and ClojureScript because:

    • it's 1 language, multiple platforms.
    • Simple syntax.
    • Designed to avoid unwanted side effects and bugs.
    • Immutable data-structures.
    • Compact code, very expressive.
    • Source code is data.
    • It has super-flexible macro.
    • Has metadata.
    • Interoperability with JavaScript, Java and C#.
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    Ruby

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      Programme friendly
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      Quick to develop
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      Great community
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      Productivity
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      Simplicity
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      Open source
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      Meta-programming
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      Powerful
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      Blocks
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      Powerful one-liners
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      Flexible
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      Easy to learn
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      Easy to start
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      Maintainability
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      Lambdas
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      Procs
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      Fun to write
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      Diverse web frameworks
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      Reads like English
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      Makes me smarter and happier
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      Rails
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      Very Dynamic
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      Elegant syntax
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      Matz
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      Object Oriented
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      Programmer happiness
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      Elegant code
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      Generally fun but makes you wanna cry sometimes
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      Friendly
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      Fun and useful
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      Easy packaging and modules
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      There are so many ways to make it do what you want
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      Primitive types can be tampered with
    CONS OF RUBY
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      Memory hog
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      Really slow if you're not really careful
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      Nested Blocks can make code unreadable
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      Encouraging imperative programming
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      Ambiguous Syntax, such as function parentheses

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    Lead Architect at Fresha · | 28 upvotes · 3.8M views

    When you think about test automation, it’s crucial to make it everyone’s responsibility (not just QA Engineers'). We started with Selenium and Java, but with our platform revolving around Ruby, Elixir and JavaScript, QA Engineers were left alone to automate tests. Cypress was the answer, as we could switch to JS and simply involve more people from day one. There's a downside too, as it meant testing on Chrome only, but that was "good enough" for us + if really needed we can always cover some specific cases in a different way.

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    Jonathan Pugh
    Software Engineer / Project Manager / Technical Architect · | 25 upvotes · 2.9M views

    I needed to choose a full stack of tools for cross platform mobile application design & development. After much research and trying different tools, these are what I came up with that work for me today:

    For the client coding I chose Framework7 because of its performance, easy learning curve, and very well designed, beautiful UI widgets. I think it's perfect for solo development or small teams. I didn't like React Native. It felt heavy to me and rigid. Framework7 allows the use of #CSS3, which I think is the best technology to come out of the #WWW movement. No other tech has been able to allow designers and developers to develop such flexible, high performance, customisable user interface elements that are highly responsive and hardware accelerated before. Now #CSS3 includes variables and flexboxes it is truly a powerful language and there is no longer a need for preprocessors such as #SCSS / #Sass / #less. React Native contains a very limited interpretation of #CSS3 which I found very frustrating after using #CSS3 for some years already and knowing its powerful features. The other very nice feature of Framework7 is that you can even build for the browser if you want your app to be available for desktop web browsers. The latest release also includes the ability to build for #Electron so you can have MacOS, Windows and Linux desktop apps. This is not possible with React Native yet.

    Framework7 runs on top of Apache Cordova. Cordova and webviews have been slated as being slow in the past. Having a game developer background I found the tweeks to make it run as smooth as silk. One of those tweeks is to use WKWebView. Another important one was using srcset on images.

    I use #Template7 for the for the templating system which is a no-nonsense mobile-centric #HandleBars style extensible templating system. It's easy to write custom helpers for, is fast and has a small footprint. I'm not forced into a new paradigm or learning some new syntax. It operates with standard JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS 3. It's written by the developer of Framework7 and so dovetails with it as expected.

    I configured TypeScript to work with the latest version of Framework7. I consider TypeScript to be one of the best creations to come out of Microsoft in some time. They must have an amazing team working on it. It's very powerful and flexible. It helps you catch a lot of bugs and also provides code completion in supporting IDEs. So for my IDE I use Visual Studio Code which is a blazingly fast and silky smooth editor that integrates seamlessly with TypeScript for the ultimate type checking setup (both products are produced by Microsoft).

    I use Webpack and Babel to compile the JavaScript. TypeScript can compile to JavaScript directly but Babel offers a few more options and polyfills so you can use the latest (and even prerelease) JavaScript features today and compile to be backwards compatible with virtually any browser. My favorite recent addition is "optional chaining" which greatly simplifies and increases readability of a number of sections of my code dealing with getting and setting data in nested objects.

    I use some Ruby scripts to process images with ImageMagick and pngquant to optimise for size and even auto insert responsive image code into the HTML5. Ruby is the ultimate cross platform scripting language. Even as your scripts become large, Ruby allows you to refactor your code easily and make it Object Oriented if necessary. I find it the quickest and easiest way to maintain certain aspects of my build process.

    For the user interface design and prototyping I use Figma. Figma has an almost identical user interface to #Sketch but has the added advantage of being cross platform (MacOS and Windows). Its real-time collaboration features are outstanding and I use them a often as I work mostly on remote projects. Clients can collaborate in real-time and see changes I make as I make them. The clickable prototyping features in Figma are also very well designed and mean I can send clickable prototypes to clients to try user interface updates as they are made and get immediate feedback. I'm currently also evaluating the latest version of #AdobeXD as an alternative to Figma as it has the very cool auto-animate feature. It doesn't have real-time collaboration yet, but I heard it is proposed for 2019.

    For the UI icons I use Font Awesome Pro. They have the largest selection and best looking icons you can find on the internet with several variations in styles so you can find most of the icons you want for standard projects.

    For the backend I was using the #GraphCool Framework. As I later found out, #GraphQL still has some way to go in order to provide the full power of a mature graph query language so later in my project I ripped out #GraphCool and replaced it with CouchDB and Pouchdb. Primarily so I could provide good offline app support. CouchDB with Pouchdb is very flexible and efficient combination and overcomes some of the restrictions I found in #GraphQL and hence #GraphCool also. The most impressive and important feature of CouchDB is its replication. You can configure it in various ways for backups, fault tolerance, caching or conditional merging of databases. CouchDB and Pouchdb even supports storing, retrieving and serving binary or image data or other mime types. This removes a level of complexity usually present in database implementations where binary or image data is usually referenced through an #HTML5 link. With CouchDB and Pouchdb apps can operate offline and sync later, very efficiently, when the network connection is good.

    I use PhoneGap when testing the app. It auto-reloads your app when its code is changed and you can also install it on Android phones to preview your app instantly. iOS is a bit more tricky cause of Apple's policies so it's not available on the App Store, but you can build it and install it yourself to your device.

    So that's my latest mobile stack. What tools do you use? Have you tried these ones?

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    Rust

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      Minimal runtime
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      Pattern matching
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      Type inference
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      Algebraic data types
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      Concurrent
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      Efficient C bindings
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      Practical
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      Best advances in languages in 20 years
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      Safe, fast, easy + friendly community
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      Fix for C/C++
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      Stablity
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      Zero-cost abstractions
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      Closures
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      Great community
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      Extensive compiler checks
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      No NULL type
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      Async/await
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      Completely cross platform: Windows, Linux, Android
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      No Garbage Collection
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      Great documentations
    • 14
      High-performance
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      Super fast
    • 12
      Generics
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      High performance
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      Safety no runtime crashes
    • 11
      Guaranteed thread data race safety
    • 11
      Fearless concurrency
    • 11
      Macros
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      Compiler can generate Webassembly
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      Helpful compiler
    • 9
      Easy Deployment
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      RLS provides great IDE support
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      Prevents data races
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      Real multithreading
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      Painless dependency management
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      Good package management
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      Support on Other Languages
    CONS OF RUST
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      Hard to learn
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      Ownership learning curve
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      Unfriendly, verbose syntax
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      Variable shadowing
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      High size of builded executable
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      Many type operations make it difficult to follow
    • 3
      No jobs
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      Use it only for timeoass not in production

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    Hello!

    I'm a developer for over 9 years, and most of this time I've been working with C# and it is paying my bills until nowadays. But I'm seeking to learn other languages and expand the possibilities for the next years.

    Now the question... I know Ruby is far from dead but is it still worth investing time in learning it? Or would be better to take Python, Golang, or even Rust? Or maybe another language.

    Thanks in advance.

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    James Cunningham
    Operations Engineer at Sentry · | 18 upvotes · 313.4K views
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    Sentry's event processing pipeline, which is responsible for handling all of the ingested event data that makes it through to our offline task processing, is written primarily in Python.

    For particularly intense code paths, like our source map processing pipeline, we have begun re-writing those bits in Rust. Rust’s lack of garbage collection makes it a particularly convenient language for embedding in Python. It allows us to easily build a Python extension where all memory is managed from the Python side (if the Python wrapper gets collected by the Python GC we clean up the Rust object as well).

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      Open source
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      Great community
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      Built-in concurrency
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      Built-in parallelism
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      Composable
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      Referentially transparent
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      Generics
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      Type inference
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      Intellectual satisfaction
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      If it compiles, it's correct
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      Flexible
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      Monads
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      Great type system
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      Proposition testing with QuickCheck
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      One of the most powerful languages *(see blub paradox)*
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      Purely-functional Programming
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      Highly expressive, type-safe, fast development time
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      Pattern matching and completeness checking
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      Great maintainability of the code
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      Fun
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      Reliable
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      Best in class thinking tool
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      Kind system
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      Better type-safe than sorry
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      Type classes
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      Predictable
    • 1
      Orthogonality
    CONS OF HASKELL
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      Too much distraction in language extensions
    • 8
      Error messages can be very confusing
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      Libraries have poor documentation
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      No good ABI
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      No best practices
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      Poor packaging for apps written in it for Linux distros
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      Sometimes performance is unpredictable
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      Slow compilation
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      Monads are hard to understand

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    I have 3 reasons for it. I am looking for:

    Fun.

    Improve functional programming skill.

    Improve problem-solving skill.

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    It is Pure functional, it helps me to write better Scala code.

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      Great libraries
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      Readable code
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      Beautiful code
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      Rapid development
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      Large community
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      Open source
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      Elegant
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      Great community
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      Object oriented
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      Dynamic typing
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      Great standard library
    • 58
      Very fast
    • 54
      Functional programming
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      Easy to learn
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      Scientific computing
    • 35
      Great documentation
    • 28
      Matlab alternative
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      Productivity
    • 28
      Easy to read
    • 23
      Simple is better than complex
    • 20
      It's the way I think
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      Imperative
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      Free
    • 18
      Very programmer and non-programmer friendly
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      Machine learning support
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      Powerfull language
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      Fast and simple
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      Scripting
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      Explicit is better than implicit
    • 11
      Ease of development
    • 10
      Clear and easy and powerfull
    • 9
      Unlimited power
    • 8
      It's lean and fun to code
    • 8
      Import antigravity
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      Python has great libraries for data processing
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      Print "life is short, use python"
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      I love snakes
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      Should START with this but not STICK with This
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      Not suitable for autocomplete
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      Meta classes
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