I've used Rails for various products for 10+ years (and plenty of other tools for comparison) and really appreciate it for the productivity, conventions, philos

I've used Rails for various products for 10+ years (and plenty of other tools for comparison) and really appreciate it for the productivity, conventions, philosophy, etc. But after spending most of this year with Elixir/Phoenix, I don't think I'll ever go back. In my opinion, Phoenix competes well with most of the strong points of Rails, and avoids many of the downsides - including the ones discussed in this article. It's also built on a more performant and robust foundation (Erlang/OTP). You may not truly "need" some of those advanced foundation features at first, but at just the same point where a Rails project starts to struggle, Phoenix really shines. Phoenix is not the solution for every app, but for every app where I would have used Rails in the past, it's looking like Phoenix from now on.