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Elixir/Phoenix gets this right. Working on a side project right now and so far it's a very enjoyable experience. I find the abstractions much more intuitive. T
by noam87 10y ago
Elixir/Phoenix gets this right. Working on a side project right now and so far it's a very enjoyable experience.
I find the abstractions much more intuitive. The framework as a whole is just as "magical" for fast prototyping, but it's composed of much simpler individual modules that are easy to wrap one's head around.
It's surprising how mature the whole ecosystem feels considering it's still quite niche. It helps to have decades of battle-tested Erlang libraries at your disposal.
- askyourmother 10y agoWait till hex is filled with crap like gems are today. The Rails programmers are coming to elixir as it had already been called the new Rails, and they will follow the pragprog book to it the new promised land. If you enjoyed early adopter status in elixir phoenix, wait till it is Rails mk 2. It will suck big time.
- szx 10y agoYou have a point there, but I do wonder if this is inevitable, or if (1) the language does make a difference in that regard and (2) the community can help steer newcomers in the right direction and establish best practices, standards of quality, etc. etc. (cf. Clojure?) As a side note, I feel like this has happened to some degree to the React ecosystem. I can no longer count on packages to be of decent quality.