From Elixir to Erlang - Experience report

Is the tooling in Erlang really that bad? Are macros in Elixir actually creating that much confusion? And what about the syntax?

Over the last couple months, I worked almost exclusively with Erlang after many years spent with Elixir. In this talk I'm going to share my reflections on the state of both languages and what they can learn from one another. I'll explore things that I found surprising, some that I miss, and couple that were delightful.

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1. From Elixir to Erlang Experience Report
2. Michał Muskała http://michal.muskala.eu/ https://github.com/michalmuskala/ @michalmuskala
4. Photo by Thais Ribeiro on Unsplash
6. Photo by Fons Heijnsbroek on Unsplash
7. Things I miss
8. Photo by Maarten van den Heuvel on Unsplash
9. Documentation • many excellent examples • beautiful design • attention to detail, “delightful” experience • uniformity • Erlang is getting much better!
10. Photo by CDC on Unsplash
11. Testing • unfortunately disappointing • error information on failures is poor • poor parallelism support in tests • clunky interfaces • I want to improve things
12. Photo by João Silas on Unsplash
13. Inspect • legible data structures in the shell • easy information hiding
14. Things I like
15. Photo by Ben White on Unsplash
16. Syntax
17. Photo by Josh Redd on Unsplash
18. Compiler
19. Photo by David Clarke on Unsplash
20. erlang_ls
21. The future is bright, BEAM people unite!
22. From Elixir to Erlang Experience Report
23. Photo by Camylla Battani on Unsplash