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Another reason to move to Elixir from Ruby...
by gjmacd 5y ago
Another reason to move to Elixir from Ruby...
- anamexis 5y agoWhere setting up a new app with Tailwind JIT is substantially easier?
- gjmacd 5y agoWhere Phoenix does a better job with all this and you don't have Ruby's baggage anymore.
- anamexis 5y agoWhat is "all this"? This post is almost entirely about setting up Tailwind. (I have developed professionally with both Rails and Phoenix and enjoy both.)
- gjmacd 5y agohttps://pragmaticstudio.com/tutorials/adding-tailwind-css-to-phoenix https://pragmaticstudio.com/tutorials/adding-tailwind-css-to...
- anamexis 5y agoRight, this process looks basically equivalent in steps and complexity.
- Mikeb85 5y agoIt's literally the same process and it still uses webpacker...
- kweinber 5y agoElixir is like the alternate town in Blazing Saddles. It looks great but you find out there aren’t really people nor library depth there. After it blows up your staffing and project plans you end up moving back.
- cultofmetatron 5y agoI built my startup in elixir. yes, there aren't as many libraries but the ones I've needed have been available and reasonably documented in most cases. one thing I like in elixir is that the whole language (and thus libraries) are more composable. its easier forme to break and reform functionality from libraries in ways the authors didnt envision. Takes more time to integrate but the end result is way more maintainable.
- MrMcDowall 5y agoYeah, Elixir is great, but zealots keep acting like it's happening, and it is totally not happening.
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- joelbluminator 5y agoElixir isn't even in Tiobe's top 50 https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
- cutler 5y agoWhilst I agree with you that Elixir is an also-ran Tiobe is the worst yardstick by which to measure a programming language. I can never understand why anyone takes it seriously.
- joelbluminator 5y agoAgreed. Redmonk then? Not in the top 20 https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2021/08/05/language-rankings-6-21/ https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2021/08/05/language-rankings-6-2... I think Elixir fans should learn a lesson in being humble...