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Looks like it's targeted more towards the Elm crowd with npm install instructions than the Elixir crowd with no hex/mix install method.

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Elchemy creator here. Quite the opposite to be honest. I come from Elixir background. It's just that npm is much more reliable when it comes to global system-wide installations

Are you saying Mix/Hex is unreliable or are you saying npm is on more machines globally?

He's talking about installing a package globally on your system. That's the -g flag

Hex has global commands as well

There's no real advantage in having a global command when the command doesn't make sense outside of a project folder

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