Geek facts about Bigger Picture

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It's built in Elixir

Elixir is a functional programming language with no or little side effects making it easy to find bugs and add more functionality to the software. Some of its ancestors are Erlang and Ruby. Erlang was made for maintaining millions of phone connections across the world, and Ruby, for the best developer experience.

We aren't trashy

We have automatic garbage collection. Elements which have been completed or closed automatically move to the archive on a scheduled basis. It keeps your environment clean.

You Won't Repeat Yourself

Elements in Bigger Picture tightly coupled, they speak to each other and update each other. We don't like it moist, so made it DRY. Perform an action once, and use references from then on.

#Dogfooding

Bigger Picture is designed using Bigger Picture. We use our software to keep track of our software.