After being inspired by David's talk on Elixir at Hardhat, we decided to try and build our own SSH public key management tool PubKeys in Elixir. We're delighted to report back that Elixir is amazing and we've released the source code to the community at Github.
Things we love about Elixir:
- Writing code in a functional style encourages us to break the code into small chunks of functions.
- Through the use of function composition operator
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, this makes the code much more readable, and elegant. - Pattern matching is great.