Comment by SanderNL | Hacker News Reader

Comment by SanderNL | Hacker News Reader

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You keep insisting HN is not providing comments up to your standards. Let’s not go there OK? I just disagree with your analysis. I think it is too simplistic to state GCs cause this and Elixir somehow magically causes 95% efficiency boosts.

All I’m saying is that if you can drop 1330 servers just like that, there might be something more going on than Python’s slowness.

This is from experience. I have seen people create slow and fast systems with just about any tech. I can make Elixir crawl, I can assure you of that.

I have seen Python apps use 10 servers and reduced it to one as well. Same tech, just a more efficient mindset. It’s IMO a bit too simplistic to say systems with GCs fall over when under load.

Sure, if you want to expand the discussion to "everyone can make every tech stack act badly" then you might have had an argument. I don't find that argument compelling however -- it's borderline meaningless.

Also nobody used the word "magically" before you did. Note that.

What's your argument exactly? That Elixir is overrated? Or something else?

Furthermore, I am not insisting on my standards of the quality of comments. I am under the impression that's the expected quality of comments on HN at large.

Good sir, I am not looking for trouble. I concur, my argument is nebulous at best.

To be clear, I think Elixir is marvelous. This post spiked my interest in it actually. Sorry if I come across ignorant. That’s because I am.

Thank you for recognizing that we were going nowhere. Apologies if my tone was sharp.

I am not evangelizing tech -- I am a polyglot and I use what I find is best suited for a job, and Elixir happens to cover quite a lot of ground. That's all really. I also use Rust and Golang quite a bit.

I simply get ticked off when people start demeaning something without seriously working with it or even reading a bit beforehand. Sorry if I mistakenly put you in that group.

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