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Im not at all negative about Elixir. It could be a fantastic tool, I never used it. I do think that its past it peak, is very small and not a wise choice for a

Im not at all negative about Elixir. It could be a fantastic tool, I never used it. I do think that its past it peak, is very small and not a wise choice for a new business due to the very small ecosystem. I would say the same about Clojure or Lisp. As a Rubyist, I grudgingly admit it would have been wiser to start a business on Python or PHP than Ruby (though it matters much less than Elixir; Ruby is huge compared to Elixir). But all things being equal as a project owner you go with the ecosystem that has the brighter future. For Elixir it really doesn't look too good imo. It never gained traction like its contemporaries (Golang, Node, Rust, even Scala) and I have no reason to believe some sudden surge in popularity is about to happen. And soon Elixir won't even be new anymore; there will be shinier toys to play with. You will then see a massive exodus of the early Elixir adopters migrating to the new toys and writing blogs "Why we left Elixir for X". It's very painful when it happens, as a Rubyist I can attest. Anyway we can exchange data if you want or you can attack me personally because you don't like what I have to say...

midrus 6y ago
I used to work for a company that picked up elixir at its peak and after struggling a lot with hiring a few years later they deprecated it and started to replace it where possible with other technologies. So I totally understand and agree with what you said.
- joelbluminator 6y ago
  Thanks! Was it only hiring though or were there other factors? When you dig in Elixir criticism there's quite a lot of issues. Missing / abandoned libraries comes to mind and I suspect its purely functional nature doesn't fit in the brains of many people. Elixir devs try to sell it as just a better Ruby/Rails which is outrageous in my eyes.
  - midrus 5y ago
    Yes, the ecosystem is a lot smaller. There are not as many well maintained libraries as in Ruby, or node. Just look and compare the numbers in the package managers websites. Also, the vscode editor plugin for elixir is atrocious. And finally, this is more of a personal preference, but I don't like compilation, makes development a lot slower. So ruby/python/raw node are better for me.

midrus 6y ago

I used to work for a company that picked up elixir at its peak and after struggling a lot with hiring a few years later they deprecated it and started to replace it where possible with other technologies. So I totally understand and agree with what you said.

joelbluminator 6y ago
Thanks! Was it only hiring though or were there other factors? When you dig in Elixir criticism there's quite a lot of issues. Missing / abandoned libraries comes to mind and I suspect its purely functional nature doesn't fit in the brains of many people. Elixir devs try to sell it as just a better Ruby/Rails which is outrageous in my eyes.
- midrus 5y ago
  Yes, the ecosystem is a lot smaller. There are not as many well maintained libraries as in Ruby, or node. Just look and compare the numbers in the package managers websites. Also, the vscode editor plugin for elixir is atrocious. And finally, this is more of a personal preference, but I don't like compilation, makes development a lot slower. So ruby/python/raw node are better for me.