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Elixir vs Material Design for Angular: What are the differences?
Developers describe Elixir as "Dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications". 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. On the other hand, Material Design for Angular is detailed as "Material Design for AngularJS Apps". Material Design is a specification for a unified system of visual, motion, and interaction design that adapts across different devices. Our goal is to deliver a lean, lightweight set of AngularJS-native UI elements that implement the material design system for use in Angular SPAs.
Elixir can be classified as a tool in the "Languages" category, while Material Design for Angular is grouped under "Front-End Frameworks".
"Concurrency" is the top reason why over 124 developers like Elixir, while over 103 developers mention "Ui components" as the leading cause for choosing Material Design for Angular.
Elixir and Material Design for Angular are both open source tools. It seems that Material Design for Angular with 16.5K GitHub stars and 3.57K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Elixir with 15.5K GitHub stars and 2.21K GitHub forks.
Movielala, Bannerman, and inFeedo are some of the popular companies that use Material Design for Angular, whereas Elixir is used by Poll Everywhere, NoRedInk, and Resultados Digitais. Material Design for Angular has a broader approval, being mentioned in 279 company stacks & 369 developers stacks; compared to Elixir, which is listed in 175 company stacks and 183 developer stacks.
Pros of Elixir
- Concurrency174
- Functional162
- Erlang vm133
- Great documentation113
- Great tooling105
- Immutable data structures87
- Open source81
- Pattern-matching77
- Easy to get started62
- Actor library59
- Functional with a neat syntax32
- Ruby inspired29
- Erlang evolved25
- Homoiconic24
- Beauty of Ruby, Speed of Erlang/C22
- Fault Tolerant17
- Simple14
- High Performance13
- Doc as first class citizen11
- Good lang11
- Pipe Operator11
- Stinkin' fast, no memory leaks, easy on the eyes9
- Fun to write9
- OTP8
- Resilient to failure8
- GenServer takes the guesswork out of background work6
- Pattern matching4
- Not Swift4
- Idempotence4
- Fast, Concurrent with clean error messages4
- Easy to use3
- Dynamic Typing2
- Error isolation2
Pros of Material Design for Angular
- Ui components122
- Backed by google63
- Free51
- Backed by angular51
- Javascript47
- Open source34
- Responsiveness33
- Easy to learn30
- Quick to develop28
- Customizable20
- Powerful8
- Easy to start8
- Flexible6
- Themes5
- Flexbox Layouts4
- Great community3
- I like its design3
- Great extensions2
- Consistents1
- CDK1
- It's the best looking out of the box1
- Seamless integration with AngularJS but lack of docs1
- Progressive Web Apps - to learn0
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Cons of Elixir
- Fewer jobs for Elixir experts11
- Smaller userbase than other mainstream languages7
- Elixir's dot notation less readable ("object": 1st arg)5
- Dynamic typing4
- Difficult to understand2
- Not a lot of learning books available1
Cons of Material Design for Angular
- No practical examples4