while bracing myself for the downvotes storm: why is this frontpage? it's very bland content harping the same old story about immutable data and pipes, without any real insights other than "3 months of a new thing and it seems cool".
are we really at the point where rust or elixir in the title = instant karma shower?
I'm the author and it was a surprise to see the post here, and I find that flattering and quite warming that someone liked it enough to share (and enough people liked it enough to upvote it).
I respect your opinion but might I suggest you were not the audience for it? There are maybe three or four posts saying the same thing as you. Nobody has to like or agree with anything that hits front page on HN. And yes, I do agree that HN has a soft spot for Elixir lately, same as AI and LLMs.
hope that you got no offense from that, I didn't mean it: it takes quite a lot to publish your musings on the internet and I totally admire that. The article was well written but again, I found it a bit bland for my tastes as you identified I'm probably not the target audience.
It's just that, after many many many months of elixir (pseudo?)brigading it's starting to get tiresome. Thanks for your comprehension.
No, no offense at all. I welcome it, actually. Can do a lot more with constructive critique than pure praise.
I'm honoured someone found it worthy to submit, but I do know that elixir has been an easy hype topic here. Not sure the rest of my blog would gain the same traction.
are we really at the point where rust or elixir in the title = instant karma shower?