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I've been working nearly exclusively in elixir and Phoenix for the last 2 years, and i love the community, documentation, and passion around this eco system. I'

• bluehatbrit 4y ago
  Same here. I just spun up a new phoenix project (mix phx.new) to mess around with some of the new pieces and this really is a brilliant release.
• arrowsmith 4y ago
  Same here, I switched from Rails to Phoenix a few years ago and have never looked back. It solves so many of the frustrations I had with Rails and I love the Elixir language and the community around both. There was a little bit of a learning curve; Elixir's syntax looks like Ruby but the underlying philosophy of the languages is really quite different so it does take some getting used to, especially if you haven't worked with a functional language before. But it wasn't that bad; it's much more accessible than the other functional language I've dabbled in (Haskell). If I was starting a business the main thing that would put me off choosing Elixir would be the relatively small number of people who know it. If you want to have a lot of Elixir programmers in your company then you'll probably need to be willing to hire people people who don't know it yet but want to learn. But I hope this will change as Elixir keeps growing in popularity.
  • lifesaverluke 4y ago
    Got some examples of solved frustrations you had with Rails?
    • arrowsmith 4y ago
      I actually answered this question (kinda) in a comment on another thread a couple of weeks ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34858468 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34858468