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Imagine if the author had tried Phoenix and Elixir with its amazing OTP foundation…

• zem 2y ago
  the elixir ecosystem doesn't have the "library for anything you could possibly need" benefit that you find with rails (and probably django too)
  • flymaipie 2y ago
    As an elixir dev I am wondering what exactly you’re missing?
    • zem 2y ago
      most recently, maximum matching over a graph (edmond's blossom algorithm)
      • flymaipie 2y ago
        That actually sounds like a perfect use case for a Rust NIF in Elixir, since graph matching can be a performance issue
      • biorach 2y ago
        > maximum matching over a graph (edmond's blossom algorithm) Ruby/Rails has this?
        • zem 2y ago
          ruby does indeed, as do python and javascript. here's the ruby library: https://github.com/jaredbeck/graph_matching https://github.com/jaredbeck/graph_matching
  • josefrichter 2y ago
    This claim is greatly exaggerated
• dajonker 2y ago
  Unfortunately, I did not! The reason for choosing Rust was mostly because of the lack of nulls and the way it handles errors. Basically the Option and Result types. And because you have so much low level control with a language that otherwise feels quite like a high level language. I did try Erlang around 2017-2018 and quite liked it. The Joe Armstrong book is one of my favorite programming books. Perhaps I'll have a look at Elixir if I ever need to build something new from scratch.