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Often compared to Rails. However no matter how similar syntax wise, Rails greatest power is its community support. Which in Elixir's case isnt there yet. I do b
by conqrr 10y ago
Often compared to Rails. However no matter how similar syntax wise, Rails greatest power is its community support. Which in Elixir's case isnt there yet. I do believe in Elixir. However they would need wide adoption to compare with Rails.
Edit: I meant Phoenix. Sorry
- ch4s3 10y agoNot to be overly pedantic, but Elixir is a language and Rails is a framework built with Ruby. As I understand it, ELixir is more popular at this point in its life than Ruby was when it was the same age. With respect to Rails the ELixir equivalent would probably be Phoenix, which is a wholly different beast. It is just past 1.0 and is already very productive and growing in popularity. While the community isn't large per se, it's growing. Additionally I think it caters to a different audience.
- qaq 10y agoWhat is the point of comparing Rails to Elixir? You can compare Phoenix to Rails. Elixir/Phoenix has obviously a smaller community (but very welcoming and supportive and growing extremely rapidly). There are classes of problems you can not solve with RoR period.