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Your experiences are nearly identical to mine. I've also moved away from keeping with the latest JavaScript tools/frameworks and have really taken to Elixir. I
by rubiquity 12y ago
Your experiences are nearly identical to mine. I've also moved away from keeping with the latest JavaScript tools/frameworks and have really taken to Elixir. I still write a ton of Ruby but having Elixir in my tool set has been awesome. Elixir is great for the things Ruby isn't, namely SSE/WebSockets and background processing flows beyond just fire and forget.
- hackerboos 12y agoThe thing that did it for me was watching Benjamin Tan Wei Hao talk on speeding up background jobs, which was a problem for me at the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X1J1lVzRuQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X1J1lVzRuQ http://www.neo.com/2014/08/11/ruby-elixir-polyglottin-ftw http://www.neo.com/2014/08/11/ruby-elixir-polyglottin-ftw