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[–] vinnymac@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Personal preference, but elixir just strikes a balance that doesn’t make me feel like I’m reading hieroglyphs so I’m actually happy to see it praised.

[–] fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

I would have preferred for the function to be called mod, since it's the modulo operation, which in math is represented with a percentage or "mod". Most programming languages use a percentage because of that, so do a lot of calculators.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I agree that Elixir is a fine language for some tasks. I personally find the readability somewhat average, but it's very maintainable (due to how it enables clear program structure), the error handling is great, and the lightweight process system is amazing.