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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 replac
by 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 agoThanks! 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 agoYes, 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.