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As someone that is deep into a Python web development, I see where this can be useful. However, after 1/3 down of the article it gets harder and harder to wrap
by RandomWorker 4y ago
As someone that is deep into a Python web development, I see where this can be useful. However, after 1/3 down of the article it gets harder and harder to wrap my brain around the concepts without really learning elixir syntax. I feel like it would have been better to have 10 smaller articles than this long one, going deeper into the syntax and showing other example of Python way of doing it. I’m not sure I would do some of the example in Python as the author suggested. That case case it just build a string array and use join. To creat the statement with an eval to run it. Weird I know, but I’ve pulled that trick a couple of times now.
- Mizza 4y agoAuthor here. This blog post originally started out as just notes to myself as I was learning the language, so it's basically a brain-dump wrapped in a little prose to give people some exposure to the language. I still love Python, but I think Elixir is a great tool to have in the toolbox.
- RandomWorker 4y agoHi there commenter here. Thanks for writing the article, I will return on it maybe in a year or so. I started learning Clojure this year and it’s quite a journey. But functional programming is the future I’m convinced. Cheers.