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Phoenix is often mentioned in conjunction with Rails because Elixir's syntax is often described as "Ruby like" and the guy who made Elixir is(was?) a member of the rails core team.


As someone who uses and likes Elixir and Ruby, the syntax is more accurately described as Erlang and Ruby in a car crash.


Yeah I get it, thanks. I still think it would be nice to stop it.


Stop discussing technologies that were made specifically to address the short-comings of the topic of the article?


> Yeah I get it, thanks. I still think it would be nice to stop it.

It would be nice for the rest of us to have informed, considered responses in comments rather than little rants. But it seems as though no one's getting what they want today.




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