Elixir Mix is a weekly show focused on the Elixir programming community. Our panel discusses topics around functional programming, the Elixir ecosystem, and building real world apps with Elixir based tools and frameworks.

Episode 46: EMx 046: Don't Repeat Your Domain Knowledge with Yiming Chen—

April 09, 2019 53:42 55.04 MB Downloads: 0

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Panel

  • Mark Ericksen

  • Josh Adams

Joined by Special Guest: Yiming Chen

Summary

Yiming Chen and the panel discusses his recent blog post about not repeating domain knowledge. Yiming Chen describes what he means by domain knowledge and how this differs from the well known “do not repeat yourself” rule. The panel discusses how this changes the code and this leads to a conversation about good testing practices. Live view is discussed and the panel asks Yiming Chen what he is looking forward to in elixir. Yiming Chen talks about what the elixir community is like in China and his experience switching from ruby to elixir.

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Mark Ericksen

Josh Adams

Yiming Chen