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I agree 100%, but I'm curious how you feel about the state of Phoenix/Elixir when it comes to popularity. I'm perhaps too inexperienced/young to know how these

by mercer 9y ago

I agree 100%, but I'm curious how you feel about the state of Phoenix/Elixir when it comes to popularity. I'm perhaps too inexperienced/young to know how these things tend to shake out. That said, my impression is that it has enough of a foothold, and with Erlang enough of a solid base, that I wouldn't end up in a situation, say, 10 years from now where the whole ecosystem is a ghost town and I need to move to some other language/framework. And based on my research it's even quite possible that Elixir might end up becoming a formidable player. But I don't feel certain enough about this to recommend Elixir to a new startup, for example. I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on the matter.

drcongo 9y ago
I'm old enough to wait until a technology has somewhat proven itself before jumping on it for client work, personal / internal projects are the perfect place to try this sort of thing out though and get a feel for whether you think it can succeed. I've had a pretty minimal play with Phoenix and I liked what I saw in terms of developer productivity and application performance, things looked a bit less certain when it came to CI and deployment though. This was a while back mind, and these areas may have improved a lot since then.