Brendon McLean brendon9x

Go vs Elixir for a SaaS Web Platform

Choosing a backend language for a SaaS product (especially in web development) can impact how quickly features are delivered and how well the codebase ages. Go (Golang) and Elixir are popular choices with distinct philosophies. Below, we compare them on two key priorities for a SaaS business: Developer Efficiency and Code Maintainability.

Developer Efficiency

Learning Curve and Language Simplicity: Go is often praised for its simplicity and approachability. It has a small feature set, making it easy for newcomers (even straight out of school) to read and write Go code. Its syntax is C-like and straightforward, and features like garbage collection and built-in concurrency (goroutines and channels) are provided without a steep learning curve. Elixir, while also designed to be friendly, is a functional language on the Erlang VM. Developers coming from Ruby or other dynamic languages often find Elixir’s syntax familiar and the learning cu

	{
	name: "awareness",
	label: "Brand Awareness",
	type: "binary", # question/measure type
	dimensions: ["respondent", "brand"],
	values: {
	respondent: [1,1,3,4,...],
	brand: [1,2,2,2,...],
	value: [1,1,1,0,...]
	}

	## Environment

	```
	Bundler 1.14.3
	Rubygems 2.6.10
	Ruby 2.3.3p222 (2016-11-21 revision 56859) [x86_64-darwin15]
	GEM_HOME /Users/brendon/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3@insight-app
	GEM_PATH /Users/brendon/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3@insight-app:/Users/brendon/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.3@global
	RVM 1.29.0 (master)
	Git 2.11.0

	define redirect_stdout
	call rb_eval_string("$_old_stdout, $stdout = $stdout, File.open('/tmp/ruby-debug.' + Process.pid.to_s, 'a'); $stdout.sync = true")
	end

	define ruby_eval
	call(rb_p(rb_eval_string_protect($arg0,(int*)0)))
	end

	redirect_stdout

	desc 'Pretty version on rails rake routes.'

	black = "\033[1;30m"
	red = "\033[1;31m"
	yellow = "\033[1;33m"
	blue = "\033[1;34m"
	magenta = "\033[1;35m"
	cyan = "\033[1;36m"
	white = "\033[1;37m"
	no_color = "\033[0m"

	<AdditionalInfo>
	<Name>Ipsos_Test1012_South Africa_Beverages</Name>
	<Uom>R</Uom>
	<MarketValue>10000</MarketValue>
	<BvcSourceType>BVC Self-Service</BvcSourceType>
	</AdditionalInfo>

	def sort_key(obj)
	if obj.is_a?(Array)
	obj.map { \|o\| sort_key o }
	elsif obj.respond_to?(:is_a_number?) && obj.is_a_number?
	obj.to_f
	elsif obj.respond_to?(:downcase)
	obj.downcase
	else
	obj
	end

	#!/usr/bin/perl
	#fetch Gravatars

	use strict;
	use warnings;

	use LWP::Simple;
	use Digest::MD5 qw(md5_hex);

	my $size = 90;

	#!/usr/bin/ruby
	files = Dir["reports*"]
	files.each do \|f\|
	dir = File.join(`cat #{f}\|grep DocumentRoot`.lines.first.split(/\s+/).last.split(/\//)[0..-2])
	rails_version = `cd #{dir}; rvm exec bundle list\|grep ' rack'`.match(/\(([^)]+)\)/)[1]
	deployed_version = `cd #{dir}; cat version`
	deployed_branch = `cd #{dir}; cat config/environments/capistrano/#{f.to_s.gsub(/reports_/, '')}.rb\|grep :branch`
	puts "#{f}: #{rails_version}@#{deployed_version} - #{deployed_branch}"
	end

	sudo -s
	cd /tmp
	find . -name '*.png' -delete