alt Hacker NewsI learned it for almost a full year by trying to build a live chat app. I went through Elixir in Action and the official guides and yet those questions were never really answered. I never said I want hundreds of thousands of processes, but thats definitely a thing you need to account for. Errors are often simply swallowed.
> Errors are often simply swallowed.
That's a choice, but it's not idiomatic.
You're expected to write things like...
(Well, that's what it looks like in Erlang anyway). If there's an error, it doesn't match, so it crashes. You don't have to check for success, but it's easy to, and 'let it crash' is the mantra, so yeah. Then you watch for crashes, and fix them with hot loading, and pretty soon you have a reliable system.Let it crash ends up not quite working, so you end up catching a lot of errors, but you should be logging them, not swallowing them...