How Elixir and Erlang handle recursion
Why using recursion in elixir/erlang is not as bad as it is in most OO languages(in most cases)?
Many developers when solving specific problems prefer to stick with a recursive approach, and the reason might be because in some cases it helps get a better time complexity(Big O) thus improving the service performance. It also may involves personal preferences, i.e some might think it’s a cleaner aproach, more readable, more elegant and so on.
For most languages, this approach can demand a lot of memory to be executed as everytime you call a function in a recursive manner, this call goes to the memory stack to be executed later.
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