Hey, Just curious what are the main benefits of Elixir compared to Clojure? When is Elixir more useful than Clojure and vice versa? Thanks.

Have you ever worked with Leiningen? Maven repo download speed? Clojure stack trace? Java-Clojure interop and its type syntax? JVM startup time? Missing parentheses? JVM 8 and 12 incompatibility? And so on… I have so much scar about clojure, but when it works, it works. As to answer of the …

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I’m C# programmer by profession and I don’t know much about Clojure but knowing it runs on top of JVM, this video explains benefits of BEAM that Elixir runs top of and why it’s so great compared to JVM and .NET VMs. [BEAM on the edge: Innovation through problem-solving - Robert Virding & Fra…

I can use clojerl and get all of that.

I don’t like parentheses, you like parentheses. It’s fine. It’s not a matter of taste.

Well, I think we discussed parentheses enough, let’s not make it too big of a thing now :slight_smile: I did not know clojerl, interesting!

Can it give you access to Elixir’s macros though? They are a very important selling point of Elixir.

You get lisp macros, not sure if you can use Elixir’s without some sugar but it might be doable.

Yes please. I don’t know why people get fixing on I what I said.

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What are the main benefits of Elixir compared to Clojure?

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tiagodavi March 24, 2020, 10:29pm 29

Thank you for clarifying. I am sorry too.