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Author here. Interesting to hear your perspective on this. I'm personally biased towards Flask, which I was trying to avoid when writing this article. Glad to s

• andy_ppp 9y ago
  There is definitely room for both opinionated and balanced thoughts on this. Do have a play with Elixir, Phoenix and Ecto though, it'll change the way you think about programming and mutable state forever.
  • submeta 9y ago
    Elixir is really awesome. All the things that I do not like in Python [0] and [1] (and many more) are gone in a functional programming language where you have functions that always return values. But I do miss the large community of Python and the excellent documentation and discussion groups. --- [0] mutable vs non-mutable (strings and tuples) data structures for instance. This leads to inconsistencies: text = "hey there", text.sort() is not possible, data=[5, 7, 3], data.sort() is possible. [1] since not every method returns a value we can't do method chaining. Ruby and JavaScript would allow me to do things like this: data.split.sort.first(). I used to do things like that in Mathematica years ago by postfix notation: f[data] // g // h (meaning: h(g(f(data)))). And Elixir allows this as well with data |> f |> g |> h. Can't do things like that in Python, have to create temp variables to capture intermediate results.