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Nathan Retta on Engineering in Android at DoorDash

Elixir Wizards

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Elixir Native App Development vs Web Development?

I would say functional programming in general has been improved overall having experience with Elixir. I do value the type system quite a bit. unit testing just becomes more important with Elixir than it would be in similar code in Kotlin, at least from my perspective. My web experience has really been limited to React. So writing React components with JSX that map down to native views is something that you can do with mobile apps. You can use the React Native project and leverage some of the React code that you write on web to create native mobile apps.

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