> I don't know how welcome it is in the "functional programming and pure functions" club, but I think it's awesome.
Erlang, and by extension Elixir, are very respected.
The fact that you have a strong background in Smalltalk isn't a surprise: Kay's idea of isolated objects sending methods to each other, independent of each other is OTP. Erlang, IMO, is the most beautiful combination of functional and (Kay's definition of) OOP there is.
Erlang, and by extension Elixir, are very respected.
The fact that you have a strong background in Smalltalk isn't a surprise: Kay's idea of isolated objects sending methods to each other, independent of each other is OTP. Erlang, IMO, is the most beautiful combination of functional and (Kay's definition of) OOP there is.