Different strokes. One of the big Phoenix perks is that using it instead of just raw Plug has very little performance drop off. It's not a Rails vs Sinatra situ

Different strokes. One of the big Phoenix perks is that using it instead of just raw Plug has very little performance drop off. It's not a Rails vs Sinatra situation. The Phoenix Channels implementation for websockets and the view layer for web requests are pretty phenomenal IMHO.