About Erlang versus Elixir, and how well LLMs handle Elixir code.
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About Erlang versus Elixir, and how well LLMs handle Elixir code.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Oh boy. One of the things I have been doing to test if an LLM is 'there yet' by my standards is if it can spit out solutions in elixir without hallucinating packages that don't exist to get the job done. Since I haven't tested since chatgpt 4 came out I dunno where it's at for that but always felt like a decent litmus test.