ecma262 VS Elixir

Compare ecma262 vs Elixir and see what are their differences.

ecma262

Status, process, and documents for ECMA-262 (by tc39)

Elixir

Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications (by elixir-lang)
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ecma262 Elixir
22 133
14,730 23,193
0.7% 2.4%
9.0 9.8
3 days ago 3 days ago
HTML Elixir
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ecma262

Posts with mentions or reviews of ecma262. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-19.
  • TC39: Add Object.groupBy and Map.groupBy
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Dec 2023
  • The "well-known" Symbols in JavaScript
    1 project | dev.to | 15 Dec 2023
    These aren't valid JavaScript (@@iterator would throw an error). They are actually internal Symbols used in JavaScript. They are used to implement features like iteration, instanceOf, and such internally. They actually might get removed or changed
  • 📦🔓Closures in JavaScript decoded
    1 project | dev.to | 19 Nov 2023
    Note that in previous editions, the ECMAScript® Language Specification used the term "lexical environment" before it decided to rename it to "Environment Record" so you might encounter this term in other definitions and tutorials.
  • Document.all Willful Violation
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Oct 2023
  • ES2023 Candidate source code + specification
    1 project | /r/programming | 10 Apr 2023
  • ES2023 candidate source code + spec
    5 projects | /r/javascript | 10 Apr 2023
  • The Evolution of JavaScript
    1 project | dev.to | 22 Aug 2022
    For a new specification to be written, you need two things, a_ technical committee_, and a standard. The standard specification for JavaScript is called ECMA-262, and the technical committee is Technical Committee-39(TC39).
  • Why Async/Await Is More Than Just Syntactic Sugar
    3 projects | /r/javascript | 12 Aug 2022
  • Show HN: We are trying to (finally) get tail-calls into the WebAssembly standard
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jul 2022
    4. Proposed something else [ https://github.com/tc39/proposal-ptc-syntax ]

    While apple is against Syntactic tail calls, they’re mainly just opposed to versions of it that would remove/unrequire the tail-call optimisation they already do: https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/issues/535

    For the version of it that is backwards compatible, they wouldn’t need to do anything other than recognise it as valid syntax. Their main concern is that it "could add confusion with very little benefit."

  • What happened to proper tail calls in JavaScript? (2021)
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jun 2022
    The spec for STC has a critique of PTC:

    - performance

    - developer tools

    - Error.stack

    - cross-realm tail calls

    - developer intent

    See: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-ptc-syntax#issues-with-ptc

    Apple's 2016 response as to why they won't implement STC is here: https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/issues/535

    - STC is part of the spec and will take too long to change.

    - Now that they've implemented support for PTC, they don't want to regress web pages that rely on it.

    - They don't want to discourage vendors from implementing PTC by agreeing to STC.

    - They don't want to introduce confusion.

    Some of these arguments about confusion and delays seem wrong hindsight, since on every point things would have been better if they'd just agreed to the compromise of STC.

    - It would have been part of the spec years ago

    - STC would have had a clear way for web pages to know when tail calls could be relied on (and PTC would have been optional)

    - Other vendors didn't implement PTC in any case, despite no agreement on STC

    - There's even more confusion as things are now

Elixir

Posts with mentions or reviews of Elixir. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-18.
  • Perfect Elixir: Environment Setup
    3 projects | dev.to | 18 Mar 2024
    I’m on MacOS and erlang.org, elixir-lang.org, and postgresql.org all suggest installation via Homebrew, which is a very popular package manager for MacOS.
  • Reliability in Legacy Software
    1 project | dev.to | 18 Mar 2024
    But regardless of their reasons, they'll note that the service is easily meeting its SLOs. It was written in a highly performant, if idiosyncratic language, and uses patterns which give it a high level of resilience and the ability to recover from many situations automatically. The service is steady as a rock, and left to its own devices will more or less chug along indefinitely once deployed.
  • Top Paying Programming Technologies 2024
    19 projects | dev.to | 6 Mar 2024
    6. Elixir - $96,381
  • What's New in Elixir 1.16
    1 project | dev.to | 9 Jan 2024
    The Elixir 1.16 release candidate is out now, and it comes with some compelling improvements to diagnostics, documentation, and a few other enhancements that make Elixir an even better choice for developers.
  • Definindo item ativo no menu no Phoenix Framework usando Short-circuit Evaluation
    1 project | dev.to | 30 Dec 2023
  • Elixir v1.16 Released
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Dec 2023
    You can find more examples in the PR https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/13106.
  • Meet entr, the standalone file watcher
    4 projects | dev.to | 2 Nov 2023
    As you might have guessed, one of the main use cases for entr is to rerun tests whenever files change. I'm an Elixir engineer, and I use entr to run mix test continuously whenever I save an Elixir file.
  • Good Bye CRUD APIs, Hello Sync: Realtime PostgreSQL with ElectricSQL
    1 project | dev.to | 29 Oct 2023
    The diagram demonstrates the communication pathway between the browser and the Postgres database through the Electric service. Essentially, Electric Sync Service, an Elixir application, orchestrates active-active data replication between the user's local DB and Postgres.
  • Building Apps with Tauri and Elixir
    14 projects | dev.to | 19 Oct 2023
    The Elixir programming language is no stranger to desktop applications as the language actually supports building them out of the box. It uses wxWidgets: a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, macOS, Linux and other platforms with a single code base. But wxWidgets has a very complex API, and doesn’t solve issues that usually come with desktop applications around packaging.
  • Show HN: Podsee – AI tool for podcast listeners
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Oct 2023
    Hi everyone, I just launched Podsee(https://pods.ee) for podcast listeners, lovers. You can search and listen to podcasts at Podsee. What makes it different is that you can get the AI transcript for an episode.

    It started as a side project after I resigned my job one year ago. As a programmer, I love Elixir (http://elixir-lang.org/) and Phoenix LiveView(https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view), and want to make a product with it. So I build Podsee.

    I'm planning to add more AI features to it, like summarize the episode audio, episode to comics, etc.

    I'd love to invite you all to try out the product and would appreciate hearing your feedback! Thanks!

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ecma262 and Elixir you can also consider the following projects:

proposal-pattern-matching - Pattern matching syntax for ECMAScript

rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

spec - WebAssembly specification, reference interpreter, and test suite.

solidity - Solidity, the Smart Contract Programming Language

proposal-ptc-syntax - Discussion and specification for an explicit syntactic opt-in for Tail Calls.

crystal - The Crystal Programming Language

TypeScript - TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.

rust - Rust for the xtensa architecture. Built in targets for the ESP32 and ESP8266

io-ts - Runtime type system for IO decoding/encoding

Akka - Build highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM

uwm-masters-thesis - My thesis for my Master's in Computer Science degree from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.

React - The library for web and native user interfaces.