• Dmitry Rubinstein
• 23 February 2019
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In this article we’ll try to battle different Elixir control structures in order to understand their efficiency and applicability in our projects.

TL;DR:

1. You can use try with else - instead of case literally (only literally!);
2. Never use with instead of case - only instead of case chains;
3. Use try if you need it - for catch cases;
4. Forget about throw and catch in your code - they are really slow;

Do you want to know, what literally means? Welcome under cut!

• Dmitry Rubinstein
• 23 May 2017
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One day I’ve stumbled upon Brainfuck-like language “Cow”. And suddenly I’ve came up with an idea to write an interpreter for it in new hip language Rust. Rust is an multi-paradigm language, which means you have to chose in which style you want to write your code in. I’ve chosen functional programming.