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Agreed. One of the many things that makes Phoenix/Elixir great for us rails/ruby refugees is that it's built by other rails/ruby refugees. In many ways, we have
by ffn 11y ago
Agreed. One of the many things that makes Phoenix/Elixir great for us rails/ruby refugees is that it's built by other rails/ruby refugees. In many ways, we have all the good things that our old masters DHH trailblazed with rails, but at the same time, very little of the mess that also came with the trail-blazing.
That being said, I do miss active_support though; Elixir's utility libraries (fox, pipe, croma, etc.) doesn't yet have all the easy automagic that made rails so simple to develop on.
- aaron-lebo 11y agoI downvoted you and I wanted to say why: 1) Referring to DHH and others as a "our old masters" instinctively bothered me. 2) While I appreciate that Elixir and Phoenix have Rails connections and can learn from it, I'd prefer it not become just a place for Rails refugees where it turns into a huge circle jerk about how Rails is terrible and Phoenix is great (which happens all too often in communities). Other than that, I agree. But we should start something new.
- fredoliveira 11y agoI appreciate the honesty here, but don't see how this is a reason to downvote his comment. His comment contributes meaningfully to the discussion.
- hackerboos 11y agoThe flip side is that everyone is trying to write Ruby packages and projects in Elixir rather than thinking out of the box as to what is best for this new programming paradigm.