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Outstanding work from the Elixir team. Very good community in the forum. It’s winter of elixir land. The hype cycle has died. If I have to start a project I wi
by bluevlah 5y ago
Outstanding work from the Elixir team. Very good community in the forum.
It’s winter of elixir land. The hype cycle has died. If I have to start a project I will think twice unless it really needs distributed system.
My personal opinion - talent pool, plugins and ecosystem is kind of stagnated. First talent pool is really limited and not readily available. Very few companies use elixir in production. More hobbyists in the community than people who actually use it.
Hex has a lot of plugins which are not updated from long. For many there won’t be a plug-in. You have to write it from scratch.
In Phoenix, they are reinventing magic with LiveView.
Few guys who do elixir consulting gain most from the ecosystem.
As a developer if I have to invest my time learning a new language, I would choose rust or Go.
As a company if I have to start a project, I will check whether I have a requirement of distributed systems.
PS: I have used elixir for past 5 years in production.
- justsomeuser 5y agoI would also prefer having a typed language over the fail fast in production approach. Especially if your code does not saturate a single CPU core.