Robert Pankowecki
Jul 10, 2017 · 2 min read

> I was distasted by how emotional and lacking substance the panel was.

Everyone could join the panel at every moment (I was happy to step out). If the panel lacked substance than probably because it lacked developers who had real experience with both sides and could compare and provide substance and would be willing to join... I think it speaks for itself.

> about the biggest advantage of Elixir over Ruby, which is scalability and concurrency? — They said they “Just don’t need it”. No comment.

Indeed, there is nothing to comment :) If I needed those traits in my projects, I would gladly consider Elixir in next project. But the truth is, I don’t. So why not just admit, and move on? :) I was really curious if there was anything beyond scalability that Elixir gave but I couldn’t find anything like it in the answers.

> CoffeeScript is just syntactic sugar for JavaScript, but Elixir is a whole new environment based on the Erlang platform, so they are incomparable!

CS is compiled to JS because without WebAssembly, that’s the only option. You could also claim that TypeScript is just syntactic sugar, but probably it is much more, isn’t it?

I believe the situation is comparable in way that CoffeeScript was better but JavaScript quickly caught up and all the benefits of CS were no longer worth living in a divided community.

I was wondering if the same thing is going to happen to Erlang/Elixir community. Erlang will catch up with readability and Elixir won’t be so attractive anymore. Dunno, maybe it won’t.

> attacking the opponents with prepared offensive questions.

I am sorry you feel that way. Could you link toa place in YT video from the panel where you think a question was “offensive”? I believe both parties were just asking questions and trying to present their point. After all it was a “fight”. That was the selected format of this discussion.

http://blog.wrocloverb.com/post/7892841588/the-main-point-of-wrocloverb-conference-is-to

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