Agreed. This article was very off putting to me. And felt like someone complaining about something without taking the time to learn the something first. Probably because that’s what it was.

> I feel as though this operator could be a detriment, or at least come with some prickily moral hazards

I don’t care about how you “feel” about elixir, or how it “could” be. Take the time to learn it, then speak to what it _is_.

In so far as the driving rationale for Elixir is not needing to learn Erlang, this seems like an odd criticism of the author.

Negging for Programmers

Underrated comment. The more I think about it, negging is almost a defining characteristics of the profession, isn’t it? C programmers complain about languages like D or Rust as fancypants languages that just add syntactic sugar. Vim users shame VSCode users ‘because who cares about nice features anyway’. People who insist in using Mutt and Pine to read their mail because ‘pretty GUIs are for pansies’, command line vs. GUI, Linux vs. Windows (and conversely, Windows vs. Linux), IRC vs. Slack and a million other examples.

We are a bitter bunch, LOL

"Negging statements considered harmful."

While reading I was remembering the old saying: "If you dont have something nice to say about...", but that is not the point I guess, the point is that it come across as disingenuous and faux-polite.

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