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Would you suggest to choose Elixir / Phoenix for an api for a startup? Is it too risky now, or good enough + very attractive?
by playing_colours 9y ago
Would you suggest to choose Elixir / Phoenix for an api for a startup? Is it too risky now, or good enough + very attractive?
- out_of_protocol 9y agoI will. The only risk is finding devs - there are too few that know elixir. Not hard to switch though ;)
- qaq 9y agoIt's used by fairly big projects/Companies bet365, Bleacher Report, New Relic,Discord, PagerDuty, Puppet labs, FireEye etc.
- brightball 9y agoI had not heard New Relic was using it
- qaq 9y agohttps://elixirforum.com/t/senior-software-engineer-new-relic/2258 https://elixirforum.com/t/senior-software-engineer-new-relic...
- karmajunkie 9y agoJust me personally, I probably wouldn't do it in anything else... Not that there aren't some other good options out there depending on your background. I just prefer Elixir, I know it scales in both maintenance and performance (the former being the more difficult goal in my mind) I think the market is growing such that finding engineers who a) have experience, or b) want experience with it, won't be a real problem. I can tackle software and hardware problems alike, there are good options for integrating native code when performance counts, and in general I consider it to be the safest option available to me.
- abritinthebay 9y agoI'm biased as my company (Bleacher Report) uses it extensively for this exact purpose but yes: do it. It's great.
- pmarreck 9y agoJump in, the more the merrier!
- thejosh 9y agoI use it for my own small startup + my work uses it as well. Couldn't recommend it hard enough. Elixir 1.5 (just released) improves Developer Experience and makes things a little easier to debug. Highly recommended, but as always ignore the hype/recommendations and do your own research.
- udfalkso 9y agoYes, you won't regret it.