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Learning Elixir
Personal blog · learningelixir.joekain.comprogramming
Learning Elixir is a personal blog at learningelixir.joekain.com about programming. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its Elixir learning material, such as a post on adding type safety to Elixir with dialyzer. The comments cite it as a pointer rather than assess its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 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?
- /elixir-type-safety/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-16
What Hacker News says?
You can use dialyzer to add type safety at compile time. It's not quite as good as Elm's compiler but it's much better than JS type checkers. http://learningelixir.joekain.com/elixir-type-safety/
Comment linking /elixir-type-safety/
on “Phoenix 1.1 Released”Submitted How I learned to program in elixir as a story · 4 points
HN discussionGranted this is speculation, but I've done my homework: 1) Extreme concurrency due to Erlang underneath, which means not only being able to handle lots of connections at once, but very good DDoS resistance. See WhatsApp's blog post about it: http://blog.whatsapp.com/196/1-million-is-so-2011 An Elixir (or Erlang) process can fire up a million new nodes in a second on commodity hardware. No joke. The out-of-the-box co…
Comment linking /elixir-type-safety/
on “Ask HN: Which language to learn for long-term work”Submitted Streaming data through a pool (Elixir) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion