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Some of the many things I like from Elixir
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{:ok, payload} = someAction()
# OR
{:error, info} = someAction()
Why is the above construct NOT as common in other languages? Hmmm, maybe they are, i might just be unaware.
Above or something akin to the Railway Oriented Programming (ROP) would be a real neat addition to your project's conventions.
There is a lot of things I like about Elixir, you know, OTP and stuff. And when working on non-elixir projects, I often find myself looking-for/reimplementing some very simple things that are second nature when on ElixirLand.
(1) One of them would be what is shown above; and
(2) another would be Ecto's changesets.
I'll leave them details to your googling skills, but i'd like to add that it is also somewhat similar to the spirit of the Parse, don’t validate mantra, which I first encountered from colinhacks/zod's readme referencing this article. go take a read.