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I’m very satisfied with Elixir. I, a longtime Ruby on Rails developer, learned Elixir on the job at CityBase and have been thrilled with it every day. The firs
by samgranieri 5y ago
I’m very satisfied with Elixir. I, a longtime Ruby on Rails developer, learned Elixir on the job at CityBase and have been thrilled with it every day.
The first thing that tripped me up with Elixir is the difference between single quoted and double quoted strings. They’re different data types!
Most of the work I’ve done has been writing JSON or GraphQL apis that react apps consume. We’re about to start using Phoenix LiveView.
I like using Phoenix + Ecto. It’s lightweight and very fast. I learned Ruby through my work with Rails, and I did not have the same experience with Phoenix. And that’s for the better.
Deployment-wise, we moved from Edeliver to Kubernetes and it’s worked great.
I need to figure out the right editor experience for NeoVim, I haven’t gotten an LSP to work just right. Sometimes Dialyzer is a pain in the ass. Also, I’ve had some issues installing erlang via ASDF lately and sometimes I’ve had to use homebrew symlinks to skip that problem.
I recommend that OP give Elixir a shot and see what you think. There’s also very nice community on the Elixir language slack server.