Elixir is not Ruby

There's argument on Twitter currently raging between Nick Sutterer, creator of Trailblazer (alternative architecture for Rails apps) and Jose Valim, Elixir's creator [1].

The argument is focused on the premise from Nick that the Phoenix framework, built on Elixir, is simply a port of Rails to Elixir with a few extra features and thus suffers from the same problems. Mainly that all Rails apps lead to monolithic architectures.

Nick posted the above link.

[1] - https://twitter.com/apotonick/status/659966637236428800

> A process is a goofy, unfortunately loaded name for an independent unit of execution. It is not an OS process, and it is not an OS thread.

It's such a small thing, but I do get bored of having to explain that unfortunate naming. Now I just say 'actor' or 'Erlang process' then clarify that's not the same as a process, or thread/LWP. It's like how system can mean 'kernel space' (performance tools) or 'service management' (systemd).

Does one have to write as much code to get the job done in Elixir as Ruby? I'm asking because Ruby requires more code even than java...

Just want to say: whatever is going on with the margins here is making this blog very hard to read on mobile. (iPhone 5)