My feeling is that their conception was at about the same time and had broadly the same goals.
I.e. make complicated programs sane. On top of that, I see the adopters being similar. Those who are looking for a better way and open to new ideas. I agree with you. Elm has many nice features that Elixir does not. Until we can run Elm on the BEAM Elixir is probably the way to go server-side : ) On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 at 15:56 Charlie Koster <ckoste...@gmail.com> wrote: > For those of you who learned Elm before learning Elixir can you describe > the appeal of Elixir from an Elm dev standpoint? I'm having trouble finding > appealing similarities between the two. > > While there are some similarities to be found, Elixir doesn't appear to > have a lot of what makes Elm great. For example, Elixir is dynamically > typed, uses impure functions, has try-catch, and has other language > constructs that remind me why I prefer Elm over Javascript. > > Can someone help clarify why Elixir is appealing to Elm developers > specifically (as opposed to Elixir being appealing on its own merits)? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Elm Discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
