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throwaway286 on April 22, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Build a real-time Twitter clone with LiveView and ...

>Elixir is one of those languages where everything has been done perfectly as of the time of this comment.

Including GenServers? I find writing GenServers to be needlessly painful. Their syntax is one of my least favorite things about Elixir.

kotutku on April 23, 2020 [–]

Why is that? The GenServer API very similar to Erlang version.

You can add your own abstractions with macros on top of that if you like.

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