cm0002Why Elixir is the best language for AI - Dashbit Blog
For all the people downvoting - despite what the clickbaity title might suggest this is not a slop post by some AI evangelist.
This is in fact an article by Elixir creator José Valim, where he comments on a recent study which showed that models had on average much better performance using Elixir to solve problems out of the 20 languages tested.
He makes some solid arguments to explain why that could be the case and why Elixir is particularly easy to work with for LLMs as well as humans.
I think I saw an article (not based on this study, and I’m not sure based on anything) that claimed a different language to be the same ‘best for AI’
I expect we may see more, and each time we may come up with some explanation of why, of course. Still maybe I should learn Elixir, it sounds decent
Oh it’s a great language, I honestly haven’t met anyone who started writing Elixir and didn’t end up loving it. If you have the time I definitely recommend it.
Ein Philosophiker@revolutionaryvole @sukhmel Yes, loving it. But can't use it in the job 😭
It’s still a rare opportunity unfortunately, I count myself as extremely lucky to have used it in a previous job!
etaOur entire backend was Elixir-based.
- Phoenix webserver providing an API service for our clients
- ETL pipelines using Broadway to ingest clients’ data
- processing of the data entirely within the BEAM, mostly native Elixir but with some small parts using other languages through NIFs for performance or compatibility reasons
There were a lot more components involved but I don’t want to go into too much detail. It was a real joy to work with though, and I’ll definitely choose Elixir for any future projects unless there are specific reasons requiring something else.
@revolutionaryvole @eta I want to have the same experiences on every work day 😭