We’re longtime users of Python at Praekelt.org, but recently the SRE team has started using Elixir for some of our projects. This blog post covers some of our favourite features of Elixir and compares them to their equivalents in Python. The Python and Elixir logosElixir is a relatively young language, having first been released in 2011. It features a Ruby-inspired syntax and runs on the Erlang vi
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