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sodapopcan
on Aug 3, 2023
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Elixir for cynical curmudgeons
There's no reason not to write GenServers if you need them. Just don't use them as a class replacement :) But if you need to model some simple runtime state or concurrency, that's what they're there for.
throwawaymaths
on Aug 4, 2023
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use Tasks for simple concurrency, Jose has built an awesome module for us.
sodapopcan
on Aug 4, 2023
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Oh I agree! I have a couple of gen servers acting as
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simple message queues—the kind that don't matter if they are nuked during a deploy.
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