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Current daily: Elixir (Phoenix), Javascript (Vue) Recent-ish daily: Ruby (Rails) Before that daily: AS3/AS2 (many), PHP (WordPress, Yii, others), Throughout:

by slindz 9y ago

Current daily: Elixir (Phoenix), Javascript (Vue) Recent-ish daily: Ruby (Rails) Before that daily: AS3/AS2 (many), PHP (WordPress, Yii, others), Throughout: HTML/CSS/JS, SQL, Side note: I was surprised at how short my list was. It feels like it should be much longer (edit: as if I'm forgetting a bunch). As far as wanting to learn? I've only scratched the surface on Elixir (~1yr). Will continue unwrapping that awesomeness for now.

ellius 9y ago
Can you explain (as much as you're able) what kind of application you're building with Elixir + Vue? I've been casually picking up both of those and I think it's a stack I'd like to make a lot of use of, so I'm curious what your experience with it has been.
- slindz 9y ago
  I'm building a process engine. It started out as me building a scheduler (with a focus on repetition) on to the functionality of Workflowy. Now I'm growing it in to a multi user tool for knowledge exchange, scheduling, and completion review. Elixir/Phoenix/Vue have been amazing, every step of the way. It took me a few months to grok the power in Elixir, but it's amazing to work with now. Learn the pattern matching. Enum is your friend. I've used Vue components from day 1, and it's been enough for this former AS3 developer to finally feel ok about Javascript development. So many JS solutions along the way have felt like rickety messes. Using Vue components has been a sane middle ground that brings everything together logically without too much inter-dependence. I'm not looking to replace this stack anytime soon!
  - ellius 9y ago
    Thanks, I really appreciate the response. I want to settle into a stack and commit to finally building some things, and I think this is the one I'll go with. I really enjoy some of the Haskell/Idris I'm picking up, but I think in a middle ground between mindshare and power this will work out pretty perfectly. I agree regarding Vue: it's the first front end thing I've looked at that hasn't felt wrong somehow.

by slindz 9y ago

ellius 9y ago

Can you explain (as much as you're able) what kind of application you're building with Elixir + Vue? I've been casually picking up both of those and I think it's a stack I'd like to make a lot of use of, so I'm curious what your experience with it has been.

slindz 9y ago
I'm building a process engine. It started out as me building a scheduler (with a focus on repetition) on to the functionality of Workflowy. Now I'm growing it in to a multi user tool for knowledge exchange, scheduling, and completion review. Elixir/Phoenix/Vue have been amazing, every step of the way. It took me a few months to grok the power in Elixir, but it's amazing to work with now. Learn the pattern matching. Enum is your friend. I've used Vue components from day 1, and it's been enough for this former AS3 developer to finally feel ok about Javascript development. So many JS solutions along the way have felt like rickety messes. Using Vue components has been a sane middle ground that brings everything together logically without too much inter-dependence. I'm not looking to replace this stack anytime soon!
- ellius 9y ago
  Thanks, I really appreciate the response. I want to settle into a stack and commit to finally building some things, and I think this is the one I'll go with. I really enjoy some of the Haskell/Idris I'm picking up, but I think in a middle ground between mindshare and power this will work out pretty perfectly. I agree regarding Vue: it's the first front end thing I've looked at that hasn't felt wrong somehow.