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Anti-Antipatterns in Elixir Library Guidelines

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Anti-Antipatterns in Elixir Library Guidelines

I am seeing a lot of aplications of Argumentum ad Vericundiam in software discussions. They do link some piece of writing and point us to it, like, look, here is the ruleset.

No, there is not. Until there is an iron proof attached, it’s just an opinion (or even rant.) Here is my debrief of some piece of Elixir documentation, bringing mere bits of advice on how to better write an average library, into “Anti-patterns” with my explanation of why all of those are not dogmas.

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Trying to learn Elixir again, but this is a good set of guidelines I can revisit in the future.

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