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Elixir vs Empathy

A side-by-side look at Elixir and Empathy. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Elixir

Elixir

Development

Elixir is a modern, functional, concurrent programming language built on top of the Erlang VM. It takes advantages of Erlang's rock-solid fault-tolerance and scalability while also introducing cleaner and more maintainable syntax. Elixir is well-suited for building distributed, fault-tolerant applications.

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Empathy

Empathy

Social & Communications

Empathy is an open source instant messaging client that supports text, voice and video chat. It uses the Telepathy framework and integrates with the GNOME desktop environment. Empathy supports popular protocols like XMPP, IRC, Facebook Messenger, and more.

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