Big Data with Elixir

I second that no sane person would write large scale programs in ASM :wink: But still, if you would, you can design datastructures nicely aligned and even bitpacked as you can in C, but you don’t have syntax support.


Why would you use elixir when you can use erlang, which is much more mature?

Denying new languages simply because they are new and there are already others that have the saim/similar goal, is not well thought.

Despite of the existence of Rust, I wouldn’t use C++ unless I really have to. That’s a thing of personal preferences. The existence of Rust makes it easier to avoid C++.

And I really like the promisses of rust. You got a memory leak in your program? Blame Mozilla Foundation and make them repair rust!

Languages, Computer Systems and reqwuirements evolve and as such there will new languages pop up. Some of them will die, others remain. And rust is a good candiate for survival.

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