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Your first impression is the same as mine. Elixir/Phoenix is absolutely fantastic and could likely be the future of web design - as soon as everyone realize tha
by _sevh 5y ago
Your first impression is the same as mine. Elixir/Phoenix is absolutely fantastic and could likely be the future of web design - as soon as everyone realize that all that Node stuff was a huge mistake. That being said, Elixir is a pretty new language and the user base isn't all that huge. Both being arguments against using Elixir in a real production environment. My point being that if you are looking at acquiring skills for future employment, Elixir may not be the best bet. In that case, Golang or Ruby even, would make more sense.
- mrsmee89 5y agoThanks for sharing your thoughts. I agree node is counter intuitive, I’m curious why you think it was a mistake? Elixir is quite new but Erlang, which it compiles to, is quite seasoned at least in programming years. That gives me confidence in terms of stability. I was able to spin up a basic real-time app in elixir in about an hour. Something that would’ve taken much longer in Django or rails. Never wanted to join an open source team before but I’m strongly considering making myself available to the phoenix team :)
- ralmidani 5y agoThe main problems with Node/NPM/Yarn are the fragmentation and churn. The situation is so bad that Rails and Phoenix are moving to alternative solutions in their latest releases.
- mrsmee89 5y agoThat was always my problem with node/js in general. Installing packages for laughably basic functions got out of hand real quick. Can you point me towards somewhere where I can read about the alternative solutions you speak of?
- ralmidani 5y agohttps://fly.io/blog/phoenix-moves-to-esbuild-for-assets/ https://fly.io/blog/phoenix-moves-to-esbuild-for-assets/ https://world.hey.com/dhh/rails-7-will-have-three-great-answers-to-javascript-in-2021-8d68191b https://world.hey.com/dhh/rails-7-will-have-three-great-answ...