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I started using Phoenix for my most recent side project. So far, am really liking Elixir and everything that comes with it. Obviously, I am still learning, bu

I started using Phoenix for my most recent side project. So far, am really liking Elixir and everything that comes with it. Obviously, I am still learning, but the inclusion of the entire Erlang ecosystem is a big plus. Will have to say that working with Elixir and Phoenix (so far) has been much more enjoyable than working with Rails. I will say the only thing I really miss is extra tooling for debugging and so on, but I'm primarily a java developer, so I'm used to having all sorts of options at my fingertips for debugging.

20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
The REPL is really powerful in elixir. You can get a command line into your running app, effectively. Elixir projects tend to go thru three phases- early its' green code and everything's working, then there's a phase where you find a whole lot of errors and it looks like you're in trouble, but once you get past that you end up with code that you can put in production and literally forget about. In that second phase, being able to connect to servers and inject data into them and see the results etc can be very useful.