ReplyJun 9, 20181
I too like to summarize things in bullet points on a commit after the summary headline. If anything, I rely on them for remembering smaller details about a commit that wouldn't be obvious via just the headline.
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I too like to summarize things in bullet points on a commit after the summary headline. If anything, I rely on them for remembering smaller details about a commit that wouldn't be obvious via just the headline.
My story has been pretty similar. I learned how to program on my own, I worked mostly as a freelance front-end developer for a few years. After that I worked for a consulting firm building MVP apps and my experience like you said. Along the whole way though I tried to find anyone that would answer my questions (mostly through Twitter or forums) and stick with them. Through that I've made several friendships that have lasted through the years!
Elixir is great for long running processes/applications where uptime & stability are important. It wouldn't be so great for quick lifecycle tooling type applications since you'd have to wait for the vm (Beam) to start up each time you ran the app. Elixir runs on Erlang , which was developed to support Telecom systems, meaning systems with lots of concurrent connections happening at the same time, and where uptime is of the upmost importance. When was the last time you picked up a land line phone and it didn't work? It turns out that on the web we're sort of dealing with the same problem. We want our apps to stay up, and serve as many concurrent visitors as possible with little latency as possible. Since Elixir runs on the Erlang VM, it can also benefit from Erlang's OTP tooling, meaning it can take advantage of supervisors (processes that restart other processes if they fail), versioned releases with hot code reloading for zero downtime updates, as well as a host of other things that web app/services developers find useful! As Mahabub Islam Prio mentioned, Elixir is a mostly functional language, which I really like. On top of that, it's also a compiled language (compiles into bytecode that runs on Beam) so you would benefit from compile time error checking and optimizations, as well as smart IDE features from your editors. I use VS Code which is mostly a text editor, but because Elixir is compiled, the autocomplete + documentation + jump to definition features work so so well. Lastly, another thing I realllly enjoy about the Elixir way is documentation/testing as first class citizens, and even has tests that you can write inline with documentation, called DocTests. https://elixirschool.com/lessons/basics/documentation/ Anyhow, I encourage you to at least check it out! (sorry for the ramble)