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A "me too" for Elixir. Coming from a Ruby background, picking up Elixir wasn't hard at all (disclaimer: I have done some FP in the past). What I found really good about Elixir is the solid documentation[1], easy comparing of libraties[2], the mix[3] tool that made starting a project really simple.

But what really blew me away were doctests[4]. Basically I ended up writing my unit tests where my code was. That was my documentation for the code, so there was no need to maintain unit tests and documentation separatetly.

[1]: https://elixir-lang.org & https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Kernel.html [2]: https://elixir.libhunt.com [3]: https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/mix-otp/introduction... [4]: https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/mix-otp/docs-tests-a...



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