And if you don't like that, you could try some other BEAM language https://github.com/stars/michallepicki/lists/beam-languages

I personally really really enjoy writing Elixir. It is a really intuitive way to write programs. Phoenix is a great web framework, and I think all of it is quite approachable. We just had a go programmer start at our org recently and they were contributing to one of our Phoenix bases SaaS apps within weeks

It's the converse that's an issue. If your org doesn't use any Erlang.

You're not going to be able to add it.

I don't find that to be true of many other ecosystems.

We could and do have a few Rust tools and webapps.

There is a few older Python/Flask internal applications.

If I went to an org with established tools from the ecosystem then that is not a problem!

I would try to build some small utilities etc, nothing big, maybe something in your personal workflow, or that throw away script your team needs.

You can still enjoy the language

Author of the post and founder of Variant System here, so cool to finally find out where we been getting all this traffic from.

So many threads I wanna jump in to, interesting discussions.

This campaign should have been called "I Donut Don't Believe" from the two reports that have dropped so far, mega sus

I’ve been digging into the data (using Gemini and a few other sources). The claims behind https://idonutbelieve.com/ are pretty bold. I’d like to be optimistic, but I’m going to wait for more independent verification before drawing any conclusions.

I desperately want this to be real but LK-99 thought me to be skeptical of big announcements. AFAIK the Finnish media went brutal on them and science YouTubers reported some rumors about sketchy stuff but they seem to be rolling so far.

VTT appear to be a solid institution, so we will find out soon I guess.

Someone should try this with the “Ralph Wiggum loop” approach. I suspect it would fail spectacularly, but it would be fascinating to watch.

Personally, I can’t get meaningful results unless I use the tool in a true pair-programming mode—watching it reason, plan, and execute step by step. The ability to clearly articulate exactly what you want, and how you want it done, is becoming a rare skill.

Given the quality of their existing test suite I'm confident the Ralph Wiggum loop would produce a working implementation... but the code quality wouldn't be anywhere near what they got from two weeks of hands-on expert prompting.

Sure yeah, I can buy that, but that would be like collecting tech debt for generations.

    > Ralph Wiggum loop

Can you explain more? (I know the reference that he is the idiot son of Chief Wiggum from The Simpsons.)

https://ghuntley.com/loop/ and https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/...

Looks like it's been renamed to ralph-loop for legal reasons. :D

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/pull/1...