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Add to SafariWhen comparing Elixir vs cplusplus, the Slant community recommends Elixir for most people. In the question“What are the best compiled programming languages?” Elixir is ranked 9th while cplusplus is ranked 18th. The most important reason people chose Elixir is:
Leverages the existing Erlang BEAM VM
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Pros
Pro Great for concurrency
Leverages the existing Erlang BEAM VM
Pro Great getting started tutorials
The tutorials are very clear and concise (even for a person not used to functional programming). Plus they are also very mobile friendly.
Pro Powerful metaprogramming
Write code that writes code with Elixir macros. Macros make metaprogramming possible and define the language itself.
Pro Full access to Erlang functions
You can call Erlang functions directly without any overhead: https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/erlang-libraries.html
Pro Scalability
Elixir programming is ideal for applications that have many users or are actively growing their audience. Elixir can easily cope with much traffic without extra costs for additional servers.
More details can be found here.
Pro Great as a first functional programming language!
Pro Great documentation
Elixir's documentation is very good. It covers everything and always helps solving any problem you may have. It's also always available from the terminal.
Pro Syntax is similar to Ruby, making it familiar for people used to OOP
All of the benefits of Erlang; without as steep a learning curve of prolog based syntax. Elixir is heavily inspired by Ruby's syntax which many people love.
Pro Easy to download libraries
Comes with built in build tool called "mix". This will automatically download libraries and put them in the scope of the application when you add them to the "deps" function and run mix deps.get
Pro References
Details view of certain functionalities in C++
Pro Forum
Discussions for various topics regarding C++ including OS based sub-forums.
Pro Articles
User C++ articles ranging from small examples to more complex ones. Good to better understand the capabilities of the language.
Pro Tutorials
Tutorials for beginners. A good way to learn.
Cons
Con Deployment is still not as easy as it should be
Con Some design choices may seem strange
Some design choices could have been a little more appealing, for example: using "do...end" comes natural in Ruby for blocks but Elixir uses them for everything and it looks pretty weird:
Enum.map [1, 2, 3], fn(x) -> x * 2 end
or
receive do
{:hello, msg} -> msg
{:world, msg} -> "won't match"
endCon Search doesn't always works as expected
Sometimes searching for terms related with C++ features returns a lot of articles and forum discussions when you wanted a Reference.
Con Old fashioned website
Not responsive and not very pretty. Not mobile ready. Letters small for nowadays displays.
