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Nathan Retta on Engineering in Android at DoorDash

Elixir Wizards

CHAPTER

Elixir

I feel like the push is heavy on testing in the dynamic language communities as they exist today. I've come up as a functional developer, so on the occasion that I need to interact with some highly object-oriented code, traits and everything, it really slows me down. So I'm living it up in functional land and enjoying my time with Elixir especially. Kotlin is multi-paradigm. It's like a lot of languages are. They'll let you do what you want. But I think a pure functional language is a little bit better for my developer happiness.

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