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Comment by brightball

9 days ago

Good use case for Elixir. Apparently it performs best across all programming languages with LLM completions and its concurrency model is ideal too.

https://autocodebench.github.io/

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monooso  9 days ago

This is the exact opposite of my experience.

Claude 4.6 has been excellent with Go, and truly incompetent with Elixir, to the point where I would have serious concerns about choosing Elixir for a new project.

  • hbogert  9 days ago

    Shouldn't you have concerns picking Claude 4.6 for your next project if it produces subpar elixer code? Cheapy shot perhaps, but I have a feeling exotic languages will remain more exotic longer now that LLM aided development is becoming the norm.

    • majewsky  9 days ago

      We've finally figured out how to spread ossification from network protocols to programming languages! \o/

    • monooso  8 days ago

      The specific agent is irrelevant. This is related to a broader personal opinion regarding LLMs and language choice.

      Before we continue, the following opinion comes with several important caveats:

      1. It only applies to paid professional work. If it's a hobby project, choose whatever makes you happy.

      2. It ignores the strengths and weaknesses of different languages. These may outweigh any LLM-related concerns.

      3. This is my opinion today. I _think_ it will survive longer than the next LLM cycle, but who knows these days.

      4. May contain nuts.

      Okay, that's the ass-covering dispensed with, on to the opinion:

      If the choice is between a language which is "LLM friendly" (for want of a better phrase) and one which is not, it is irresponsible to choose the latter.

  • dimitrios1  9 days ago

    We live in different realities.

    Opus and Sonnett practically writes the same idiomatic elixir (phoenix, mind you) code that I would have written myself, with few edits.

    It's scary good.