Elixir v1.4.0 released
My favorite part about Elixir is that it doesn't try to reinvent the wheel. It's not an untested, trendy new paradigm or tool. It's based on decades of Erlang/BEAM/OTP experience and Ruby/Rails/last 10~ years of programming ergonomics. The only things that are added are those that actually add to the experience.An example: A large part of the Erlang standard library is not translated in Elixir. Instead, you call Erlang methods with a seamless interop. José & co. understand that there's no need to reinvent the wheel and no benefit in another abstraction. I like that.My least favorite part about Elixir is that it has become a "trendy" language among the web crowd. While the community is overall great, there's always a loud minority of "beginner experts" both claiming it's the best thing ever and deriding those for using other tools. I've seen a lot of random, unwarranted Rails bashing and Elixir shilling (never from a team member or community leader though!).