Yes, and yes. In my point of view, the speed of development in Elixir/Phoenix is almost equivalent to that of Rails. And this is minus all the frustration of wo

Yes, and yes. In my point of view, the speed of development in Elixir/Phoenix is almost equivalent to that of Rails. And this is minus all the frustration of working with Ruby. Add on all the performance and language semantics of Elixir and you are far ahead already. Rails can get you started quickly, and allows you to iterate quickly as well, but the way it slows down pisses me off. The only way to keep up is to keep feeding more and more beef. The only negative I see with Elixir/Phoenix is that you'll have to figure out some things on your own until you arrive at a template for workflows you want to use in your app. After that it's all pretty smooth. A lot of people who have Rails experience don't seem to have any problem picking up Elixir/Phoenix