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Adrian Philipp
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Adrian Philipp writes Minimal Blog, a personal blog at adrian-philipp.com about programming and hardware. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Why the Elixir language has great potential”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on Elixir's design goals. The one comment discusses Elixir's speed against Java and Ruby and its pattern-matching performance for I/O and binary parsing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Why the Elixir language has great potential2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-12-22
What Hacker News says?
After starting to do groceries via an online supermarket that delivers to our home, I found it a hassle to add all ingredients one by one every time. So I "reverse engineered" the supermarket app API via a proxy, and made a tool to order recipes. When ordering a recipe, all ingredients are added to the cart. We use the tool for almost one year and it saved us a lot of time. More info + source code (Elixir, ReactJS):…
Comment linking /post/learning-elixir-second-side-project-part1
on “Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?”Submitted Why the Elixir language has great potential as a story · 349 points
HN discussionA few months ago we changed our grocery shopping habits. Instead of going to a store a few times a week, we now order ingredients via an app and get them delivered the next day. Usually we order two times a week. When ordering, we plan what we are going to eat in the next 3-4 days. Every time when we order we think of recipes to cook and their ingredients. Then we add every ingredient to the app. We also add essenti…
Comment linking /post/learning-elixir-second-side-project-part1
on “Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?”Submitted Learning Elixir: My side-project as a story · 119 points
HN discussion> slow as hell A bit of an exaggeration. It's not as fast at math as Java. It's quite faster than Ruby (while keeping coder-friendly features such as auto-rollup to bignums). If you use pattern-matching correctly, it is EXTREMELY fast at I/O or binary parsing. That puts it in a unique space of "people who don't want to sit on the JVM yet want a fully-functional language that has an accessible syntax AND macros AND m…
Comment linking /post/why-elixir-has-great-potential
on “Elixir Design Goals (2013)”Submitted Learning Elixir: 1 year later as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a GraphQL API in Elixir: Planning Recipes with a Supermarket API as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Controlling a ventilation via HomeKit, my first “hardware project” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A GraphQL API in Elixir: Planning Recipes with a Supermarket API as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Run LanguageTool Locally on macOS as a story · 1 points
HN discussion