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Python is definitely on an undeniable upswing, but you might find your mind more tingly taking a look at Elixir [0] with Phoenix-LiveView [1]. Here's a video t
by tlack 7y ago
Python is definitely on an undeniable upswing, but you might find your mind more tingly taking a look at Elixir [0] with Phoenix-LiveView [1].
Here's a video that introduces the framework (April 2019):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xJzHq8ru0M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xJzHq8ru0M
It's based on Erlang which has always felt a little rough around the edges, but rock solid and very fast. With Erlang, service boundaries become a thing of the past and tangible state makes debugging a breeze. It's still on the upswing after 20 years in industry.
Elixir greatly improves Erlang's tooling and creature comforts and adds syntax that many find more enjoyable.
As a guy with web dev PTSD, I've been testing Phoenix and Live-View a bit lately and it really hits a sweet spot between Node's speed and evented nature and the simpler end of React's interactivity.
And jobs seem to be appearing too.
Plus Elixir is surprisingly simple to setup[2] so you won't be spending all night fighting Python module dep issues. :)
[0] http://elixir-lang.org/ http://elixir-lang.org/
[1] https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view
[2] https://elixir-lang.org/install.html https://elixir-lang.org/install.html
- iends 7y agoThere are basically zero Elixir jobs outside a few companies.
- bnchrch 7y agoThis is not true according to my inbox. There a certain few behemoths that keep their Elixir usage closer to their chest as they consider it a competitive advantage
- iends 7y agoOutside of the bay area?
- petersjt014 7y agoYep. The Financial Times: https://github.com/Financial-Times/tapper https://github.com/Financial-Times/tapper Discord: https://blog.discordapp.com/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-11-million-concurrent-users-c6f19fc029d3 https://blog.discordapp.com/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-1... Pintrest, who seems to really like it (note the highlighted comment): https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/introducing-new-open-source-tools-for-the-elixir-community-2f7bb0bb7d8c https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/introducing-new-ope... And looking on https://elixir-companies.com/en https://elixir-companies.com/en I see two in the UK, two in Brazil, Amsterdam, Ukraine, Canada...Plenty there.
- iends 7y agoFYI: Discord is in SFO. So is pinterest.