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Hi @joelbluminator, may I ask you why you feel the need to frequently jump on Elixir threads here and on Reddit and be negative about other people's work?

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Oh yes, it's not the first time I've caught them trolling whenever someone posts about Elixir: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27215633

It's completely unrealistic Elixir (or anything else - Julia, whatever) will replace Python as the main AI/ML language, that's what I wanted to convey. I agree I was being a bit too snarky but what I said is true and was an answer to what OP asked. You can't be that sensitive while reading internet comments, you'll have a rough time. As for my past comments on Elixir - I tend to remain factual. I used to have a hard problem with the way the Elixir community was crapping all over Ruby to poach mind share but I moved on. Ruby also did that to Java when it was starting so that's life.

Yes, and I have replied we are not trying to make Elixir the new AI language either.

In any case, I was not speaking about this comment exclusively. It is a recurring pattern. But given you have somehow managed to make this my fault, I will drop the conversation. Have a good one!

I'm saying for anyone's own mental health, we shouldn't expect constant praise and positivity from comments. You're gonna read stuff you won't like on the internet.

That's kind of your thing though, spouting stuff that people don't like, how's that treating you?

Sometimes I provide a different point of view on internet comments. It's a big part of discussion forums you know.

"Sometimes" is a stretch.

You seem to be doing the same thing ...

just calling you out when and where I see you.

You are acting like you are providing a different point of view, but your original comments lacks any constructive criticism.

It probably won't and I don't think that's the goal. However, Elixir is making pretty significant roads for distributed data processing pipelines thanks to the Broadway framework (https://elixir-broadway.org/).

AI/ML applications were going to be a natural next step after that. It's exciting for Elixir because number crunching was the biggest computational weakness for the language for the last few years and many thought it was a limitation of BEAM languages in general. Jose's work has shown that it's not.

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