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It really is. We're rebuilding our entire backend in Elixir and it's just been incredible every step of the way. I can't recommend it enough. The language and
by noam87 10y ago
It really is. We're rebuilding our entire backend in Elixir and it's just been incredible every step of the way. I can't recommend it enough.
The language and ecosystem are an amalgamation of industry lessons from the past three decades on what it takes to build robust networked applications. It's the most painless programming experience I've had.
These days other languages feel like museum pieces when I have to jump back into them.
Not to mention being able to run dozens of services, background jobs, and API in a single box as one "umbrella application"!
- qaq 10y agoGood to see industry uptake is picking up. Gives me hope that one day I can have a job programming in Elixir :)
- noam87 10y agoHaha, what's more: through a series of coincidences I found out that the guy who built our competitor's product also did so with Elixir! (Well... not quite competitor. A similar product to ours, but which deals with the management of electricity.) So yeah, there's quite a few startup using Elixir already :) and a handful established companies as well. -- Pinterest, for example: http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/18/pinterest-elixir/ http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/18/pinterest-elixir/ : > The notification system runs across 15 servers, whereas the old system, written in Java, ran on 30. The new code is about one-tenth of the size of the old code.
- qaq 10y agoI guess time to start looking then :) Thank you for the info