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In a lot of ways elixir still seems like it’s waiting for the killer app, and yeah, things along these lines feel like a natural fit.
by photonthug 2y ago
In a lot of ways elixir still seems like it’s waiting for the killer app, and yeah, things along these lines feel like a natural fit.
- sph 2y agoPhoenix Live View is the killer app IMO.
- photonthug 2y agoI know that's what a lot of people say, but meh, I was hoping for something more exotic, and there's already lots of ways to web. An implementation of the ambient calculus on top of libcluster would be more killerer :) And re: tuple-spacing, elixir's built-in support for pattern-matching fits really well with that. Such a thing might handle web as a special case, and could maybe evolve towards secure by design / provably-secure in ways that could be new/interesting. Or it might be a more expressive kind of FaaS, or be wildly popular with the "kubernetes is too complex/expensive!" crowd, especially if it can somehow integrate components written in other languages. Just dreaming though, I only wish this kind of stuff was my day job. And even if I had really concrete ideas, something more solid than a proof of concept for such things probably needs a small army of devs. Phoenix does have the major benefit of actually existing, which is nice!