Two years in, Elixir+Phoenix is an extremely productive setup for me.
Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?
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Re: Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?
#12Here's my relevant post about choosing Elixir: https://lucjan.medium.com/choose-exciting-technology-e735bba...
TL;DR: very satisfied
Re: Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?
#134 years of writing elixir professionally and I have yet to enjoy a language as productive as elixir.
Everything from ecto, and branching logic by pattern matching function signatures to the easy composition and cohesive community around the amazing tooling (mix/hex) and testing. Plenty more I love for productivity
But because of OTP and it's capacity to scale and distribute computation I thoroughly stay loving how deep the topic is and how there's always more to learn.
Re: Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?
#14It's not argument "against" selecting it (it's a free world, and mileage vary), but a couple of scar-earned advice: - Be careful about libraries. If you know that your system has to interact with X, don't assume that there is a running, idiomatic, maintained libary for X on `hex.pm`. Do a bit of due diligence. We had experience ranging from `meeh` (oauth2, graphql, http) to `pretty bad` (mqtt, swagger.) But as other…
What is ‘meeh’?
Re: Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?
#15We’ve skipped so many additional things like Redis, Memcached, Sidekiq and tons of libraries because it’s so easy to write a module to replace stuff.
Switched from ruby to elixir 4 years ago and the only time we touch ruby is to maintain some old system.
It’s so darned easy to add functionality to an exiting app that you have to be careful of bloat.
And the functional paradigm is like second nature now. It’s hard to go back to a non functional language.
Re: Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?
#16If you are a RoR dev, Elixir will feel like a breeze. As someone who does Haskell in their day job, I miss static, powerful type-systems. That being said, the ecosystem is wonderful. Plug, Phoenix and Ecto are exceptional libraries!!
Do day jobs in Haskell actually exist? Are you working in academia?
Re: Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?
#17Nice question, I'm just starting with Elixir for a side project. Has anyone else find it to have a steep learning curve? Coming from Java/Scala and Python, I find it harder to wrap around then Scala was years ago. Shortcuts with mix like mix phx actually make it a bit more complicated for me because I'm used to understanding what is exactly happening under the hood.
Re: Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?
#18It's not argument "against" selecting it (it's a free world, and mileage vary), but a couple of scar-earned advice: - Be careful about libraries. If you know that your system has to interact with X, don't assume that there is a running, idiomatic, maintained libary for X on `hex.pm`. Do a bit of due diligence. We had experience ranging from `meeh` (oauth2, graphql, http) to `pretty bad` (mqtt, swagger.) But as other…
Interesting, some of the libraries you mention such as graphql and http, I feel there aren't better libs that exist than absinthe and ranch/cowboy.
Which graphql library do you prefer over absinthe in other ecosystems?
Re: Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?
#19Been building backend systems for nearly 20 years in Java/Ruby/Elixir. Elixir is by far the most productive language/ecosystem that I've used. I've built 4 systems in the last 5 years and they've all gone smoothly and performed well in production. Only thing on the wish list is full static typing (there's dialyzer which is useful but very much feels like the bolt-on that it is).
Re: Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?
#20If you are a RoR dev, Elixir will feel like a breeze. As someone who does Haskell in their day job, I miss static, powerful type-systems. That being said, the ecosystem is wonderful. Plug, Phoenix and Ecto are exceptional libraries!!
Do day jobs in Haskell actually exist? Are you working in academia?
There are some in finance