It turns out that Erlang had installed successfully.

"AI" coding agents.

What's to stop people outside the Elixir community voting posts down?

I think you can figure out the answer. You are on the elixir community after all.

I can't tell if the downvotes are people hating Elixir, AI coding agents, or both. 😕

It's still a rare opportunity unfortunately, I count myself as extremely lucky to have used it in a previous job!

@revolutionaryvole @sukhmel Yes, loving it. But can't use it in the job 😭

Oh it's a great language, I honestly haven't met anyone who started writing Elixir and didn't end up loving it. If you have the time I definitely recommend it.

even if this isn't a slop post and the author is credible, timing my friend. LLMs being used for good things is by far the exception to the rule

I think I saw an article (not based on this study, and I'm not sure based on anything) that claimed a different language to be the same ‘best for AI’

I expect we may see more, and each time we may come up with some explanation of why, of course. Still maybe I should learn Elixir, it sounds decent

For all the people downvoting - despite what the clickbaity title might suggest this is not a slop post by some AI evangelist.

This is in fact an article by Elixir creator José Valim, where he comments on a recent study which showed that models had on average much better performance using Elixir to solve problems out of the 20 languages tested.

He makes some solid arguments to explain why that could be the case and why Elixir is particularly easy to work with for LLMs as well as humans.

they're working on adding set-theoretic types to elixir: https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/gradual-set-theoretic-types.html

@Custodian6718 @lena They wanted to add typings, they said in Poland at the ElixirConf?

Type checking and inference? Did I miss something? Isnt elixir dynamically typed?