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What every Node.js developer needs to know about Elixir - Bryan Hunter

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Programming languagesWeb developmentElixir and ErlangNode.js, Deno and BunConcurrency and parallelism

Bryan Hunter compares Node.js and Elixir, explaining why Elixir's concurrency model and fault tolerance make it a compelling alternative for backend development.

Node with its sweet-spot of quickly standing up back-ends has caught fire in dev shops around the world. Depending on your business case, that fire can yield a high-fiving “we did it!” celebration, or a charred project timeline with scorched, haggard developers. When is Node OK? When is it dangerous? What’s the alternative? Many seasoned Node developers are discovering Elixir makes a great lifeline when Node turns creepy. They're escaping to a polyglot approach: JavaScript in the browser, Elixir on the server. OK… but why Elixir? Answer: Elixir is approachable and productive like Node, but it’s much more versatile and safe than Node. Elixir is an expressive functional programming language that is 100% "good parts” borrowed from Erlang, Ruby, Clojure, Python, F#, and Node.js. Elixir delivers familiar (modern) tooling, developer joy, simplified distribution, massive concurrency, and carrier grade fault-tolerance. Curious? Good! Come join the fun! NDC Conferences ndcoslo.com ndcconferences.com

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What people say. Recommended for Node.js developers looking to understand the advantages of Elixir's concurrency and fault tolerance.

u/RustySentinelin r/elixir • Recommends

On “What are the best conference talk videos for Elixir?”

Here you go: - What every Node.js developer needs to know about Elixir - Bryan Hunter - [Erlang Performance Lab - Michal Slaski ]
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u/disnemarxyloin r/elixir • Recommends

On “What are advantages of Elixir over NodeJS?”

Maybe this talk can be useful. What every Node.js developer needs to know about Elixir: link to this video
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u/GroceryBagHeadin r/elixir • Recommends

On “Concurrency vs. parallelism in Erlang”

Watch presentation linked in that blog post: link to this video It's really good (also I like criticisms towards node.js)
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u/2legited2in r/elixir • Recommends

On “What are advantages of Elixir over NodeJS?”

> link to this video Sweet, thank you. Was just about to look up talks on this topic!
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