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Anything you miss from Rails now that you're primarily using Phoenix for those use cases? Elixir/Phoenix does look pretty intriguing to me, though the support u

Anything you miss from Rails now that you're primarily using Phoenix for those use cases? Elixir/Phoenix does look pretty intriguing to me, though the support universe is smaller. What held me back so far is that a lot of simple B2B, low volume stuff doesn't seem to benefit from the high parallelism that BEAM brings. But I'm wondering if it brings enough other advantages that I shouldn't view it that simplistically.

realusername 6y ago
> But I'm wondering if it brings enough other advantages that I shouldn't view it that simplistically. So to start with, Phoenix LiveView really is a game changer, you should have a look at Elixir just for that. This is the talk which really bluffed me when I first saw it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZvmYaFkNJI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZvmYaFkNJI. For the other upsides, I like a little bit better the way everything is architectured in Phoenix, there's much less magic and it's easier to follow the data flow and what is going on.
lawik 6y ago
Not the previous commenter. But enthusiastic :) I would recommend trying it and seeing how you like it. I've basically dropped Python which was my daily language in favor of Elixir. I find I get a higher top bound to what I can do, high-level expressive but less magical code and a bunch of capabilities that aren't typically feasible with other runtimes (state handling, resiliency and stuff). The parallelism I get for free with Phoenix whether I try or not. I'd watch Sasa Jurics talk on the heart of elixir and erlang to get more of the technical advantages laid out quite well.