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To do so much with it you need to know Elixir or Erlang ;)


You actually don't. You can use smart cells which lets you do a lot without actually coding. You can transform data, build charts, run AI model and more all without writing code.

You might have to Google how to read a file in Elixir, but you don't actually need to know Elixir.

In the future, you won't even need to know that to use it.


Ah. I never actually looked into smart cells.

Mind blown.gif

:)


Fwiw, I’ve been using Elixir professionally for 5 or so years and even created a few open source libraries. Never once had to touch Erlang.


Erlang is very nice. I prefer it for writing libraries nowadays. It’s much easier to use Erlang from Elixir than the other way around.


Or, not and. Livebook just added Erlang cells.




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