Currently, Elixir relies on :timer from Erlang’s stdlib. However, in every company I’ve worked at, I’ve noticed developers manually calculating milliseconds rather than using this library. This results in code that’s harder to read and less semantically clear.
This makes me wonder: why hasn’t :timer been ported to Elixir? Is there community interest in having a native Elixir timer module? I’m seriously considering opening a PR to implement it, but I’d like to understand if there are technical or philosophical reasons it hasn’t been done yet.
