
Jsdr3398
How was your initial experience with Elixir?
I love how elixir works and some of its perks, but I’m still pretty uncomfortable, especially when mix/hex gets involved.
Did anyone else experience that in the beginning? Just want to make sure that I’m not taking a step in the “wrong direction”
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AstonJ
This is not a bad thing - getting out of your comfort zone is really good
I can remember a tweet I posted, along the lines of “Currently reading PragDave’s Programming Elixir - and it’s stretching the grey matter… but I like it!” and then I quickly deleted it as I did not want to flood Dave’s feed, however he must of got an email notification and tweeted it as a quote! I’m mentioning this because if you’re not from a functional programming language it will feel a little alien at first - stick with it! Even if you don’t end up using it it will make you a better programmer nonetheless.
Also it’s with mentioning that think Elixir is definitely one of the more accessible functional programming languages - perhaps in part because José (its creator) was a Rubyist, and things like accessibility, programmer happiness and an intuitive feel are part of its core - many of these have found their way into Elixir too.

Jsdr3398
Yeah, I totally understand
This was my experience with other languages too, but Elixir felt different

AstonJ
Keep at it Mr GD
Better still, why not document your experience in a #community:journals thread?
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