So I work for a company where the backend is written in Elixir. Back then, I got interested in Erlang and Elixir not only because they are functional programming languages, but also because of the philosophy and the way OTP works. When I got the offer from this company, I was actually hesitating because I also got an offer from another company. I chose this company out of love for Elixir, Erlang, FP, and OTP. It has been 2 years since I joined this company, however, and there have been multiple times where I feel like our company is only using Elixir as yet another programming language. Aside ..read more

I've, more or less, got something along the lines of defmodule ItemA do use Ecto.Schema; import Ecto.Changeset; schema "item_a" do … many_to_many(:item_bs, ItemB, join_through: "item_a_to_item_b", on_replace: :delete); timestamps(); end def changeset(%ItemA{} = a, attrs) do a |> cast(attrs, […]) # in my code, these are actual struct.s from the database |> put_assoc(:item_bs, [%ItemB{}, %ItemB{}, %ItemB{}, %ItemB{}]) end end I'm receiving data from a third-party and my expectation was that, for updates, I'd just run against the whole of the data and Ecto would either be smart enough t ..read more

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Hi there! https://adopt-liveview.lubien.dev/ A couple days ago I've published and open sourced my beginner friendly LiveView course in two languages: english and portuguese. I’ve previously helped many folks joining in on this framework so I’ve wrote it in a hand-holding way for newcomers to feel safe when first learning things. It’s a bottom-up course so most of time I’m teaching how things are built before diving in on the niceties of generators. Here's the source code: https://github.com/adopt-liveview/adopt-liveview It currently has the beginner's track but I want to post incrementally in ..read more

I am new to functional programming, and was recently introduced to Elixir. I learn new languages by building stuff. And HTTP web servers are on of those standard projects that I try to make. However, I never tried to code anything in a functional programming language before, let alone a web server. And almost everything I find online is done in low-level procedural programming languages (c, rust, etc.), or very abstracted away using Python and stuff like that. If someone knows a book or an example implementation of a web server using Elixir that doesn't abstract away the low-level stuff like ..read more

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