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They're fantastic and I hope the future is bright for them but I've had to pick Rails for a few projects over the last few months because the library support is

They're fantastic and I hope the future is bright for them but I've had to pick Rails for a few projects over the last few months because the library support is so much more established. The more I get to use Phoenix, the more I am convinced it is the most well designed web framework there is, so I hope to use it a lot going forward.

burlesona 8y ago
Not a coincidence, Phoenix / Elixir originated with Jose Valim, a former Rails Core dev.
chessturk 8y ago
Elixir/Erlang's emphasis on uptime/fault-tolerance/scalability/concurrency (admittedly at the cost of performance and the abstraction of a VM) is perfectly suited to web/mobile use-cases. On paper, Pheonix should be the default choice for large and small web/mobile MVC applications. I think the question of if that becomes the case is directly tied to adoption of Elixir.
- Jedi72 8y ago
  The performance comparison matters if you start comparing nginx, and maybe even the Go/Rust frameworks, but it absolutely blows Rails out of the water for performance without sacrificing any of the high-level abstraction goodness that makes Rails appealing. No reason not to move to Elixir unless you cant hack functional programming IMO
zorbash 8y ago
Especially now, with the beta release of https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view one can be productive writing interactive applications right off the bat. Rails developers should check this out. I'm stoked about the potential of live view and I'm curating a list of demos of things built with it: https://tefter.io/zorbash/lists/phoenix-liveview-examples https://tefter.io/zorbash/lists/phoenix-liveview-examples It took me a couple of hours to build my first demo with it, have a look: https://youtu.be/tTPH4DyUaUk https://youtu.be/tTPH4DyUaUk and I didn't have to write any JavaScript for it.

burlesona 8y ago

Not a coincidence, Phoenix / Elixir originated with Jose Valim, a former Rails Core dev.

chessturk 8y ago

Elixir/Erlang's emphasis on uptime/fault-tolerance/scalability/concurrency (admittedly at the cost of performance and the abstraction of a VM) is perfectly suited to web/mobile use-cases. On paper, Pheonix should be the default choice for large and small web/mobile MVC applications. I think the question of if that becomes the case is directly tied to adoption of Elixir.

Jedi72 8y ago
The performance comparison matters if you start comparing nginx, and maybe even the Go/Rust frameworks, but it absolutely blows Rails out of the water for performance without sacrificing any of the high-level abstraction goodness that makes Rails appealing. No reason not to move to Elixir unless you cant hack functional programming IMO

zorbash 8y ago

Especially now, with the beta release of https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view one can be productive writing interactive applications right off the bat. Rails developers should check this out. I'm stoked about the potential of live view and I'm curating a list of demos of things built with it: https://tefter.io/zorbash/lists/phoenix-liveview-examples https://tefter.io/zorbash/lists/phoenix-liveview-examples It took me a couple of hours to build my first demo with it, have a look: https://youtu.be/tTPH4DyUaUk https://youtu.be/tTPH4DyUaUk and I didn't have to write any JavaScript for it.