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Thanks 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 compi

Thanks 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 ago
The 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 ago
  That 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 ago
    https://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...