Another gentle bit of evidence that dependency management in python is a mess that drives people away. I wonder if the python core team will ever fix it.

That said, this person’s use of Mix.install will probably make their scripts unusable in a few years because they’re not specifying the versions. The API does let you do that, tho.

Elixir also comes with a great options parser built in -> OptionParser, that’s really easy to use and fit into your scripts.

System.argv()
|> OptionParser.parse(
  strict: [
    debug: :boolean,
    version: :string
  ]
)

Good write-up. I’m currently in the process of learning Elixir myself, as I’ve been wanting to get a functional language under my belt. Elixir stood out because of it’s expressiveness and combination of interpreter and compiler. It feels very much like a utility language that would work in many scenarios, and using it as scripting language isn’t one I’d considered.

I’m also very interested in the Phoenix framework.