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This is fantastic. I'm hoping for some book releases in the near future now that the framework has reached version 1.
There are at least a few in the works that I'm aware of
Personally I've got a few books on elixir (one written by you), but I'd like to get as many resources as possible for Phoenix.
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Hypothetically speaking, why would you choose Phoenix over Rails for a new app?
Better for building out services. Parallel processing. The supervised process abstractions are incredibly powerful. If you're building another Twitter I would still use Rails. You'll be much more productive. On the other hand, if you need to run parallel tasks or have mission-critical (aka can't go down for anything) work to be done I think you'll find Elixir the perfect combination of Ruby's syntax and Erlang's powe…
On the other hand, if you are just building another web app, Rails is the better choice...
Disclaimer: My needs are currently best served by isomorphic React.
If you were choosing today, would you recommend choosing Elixir over Go for web/back-end development? Would you say Go is more suited for high-performance command-line tools, and Elixir for long-term running stuff? I'm an indie developer building such a back-end (social networking/chat space), have full choice of language. Started using Go earlier this year and mostly happy with it. Should I switch to Elixir in my ne…
Here I am pimping my own stuff but I wrote a related article on this:
http://lebo.io/2015/06/22/the-unix-philosophy-and-elixir-as-...
If you were choosing today, would you recommend choosing Elixir over Go for web/back-end development? Would you say Go is more suited for high-performance command-line tools, and Elixir for long-term running stuff? I'm an indie developer building such a back-end (social networking/chat space), have full choice of language. Started using Go earlier this year and mostly happy with it. Should I switch to Elixir in my ne…
Out of curiosity, which libs/frameworks are you using in Go? (that are web related)
Using "lib/pq" (Postgres) for the db.
Also: need to cache some computed data in memory, and reload using a REPL or other means, haven't figured out the most "batteries included" way to do so yet.
Also: need to figure out the most production-friendly way to redeploy code (sounds like Erlang/Elixir can do really well in this regard.)
This is awesome! I've been working with Phoenix for a bit now, and aside from the fact hex/phoenix doesn't yet have all the libraries that rubygems/rails have, Phoenix has blown my expectations out of the water. For such a big and complex framework, the entire functional plug system (functional is love, functional is life) makes the whole thing easy to grok in a way utterly unimaginable in a traditional rails framewo…
I haven't done much either with Elixir or Ruby (I do more Python and Erlang). But one thing I noticed is Valim (and others on the team) created a really approachable langauge and framework. Their emphasis on new comers, documentation, friendliness of community is outstanding. Also Elixir will bring more people to the BEAM VM and take advantage of it, as I think it is a gem of engineering.
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Out of curiosity, which libs/frameworks are you using in Go? (that are web related)
Hmm, still in the exploratory-hacking phase. Rewrote various parts of what Gorilla provides for learning purposes, plan to switch to Gorilla. Using "lib/pq" (Postgres) for the db. Also: need to cache some computed data in memory, and reload using a REPL or other means, haven't figured out the most "batteries included" way to do so yet. Also: need to figure out the most production-friendly way to redeploy code (sounds…
Also, any particular reason to not use a web framework such as gin-gonic for routing and templating? It simplifies some things down for me.
https://pragprog.com/book/elixir/programming-elixir
From the website:
"You want to explore functional programming, but are put off by the academic feel (tell me about monads just one more time). You know you need concurrent applications, but also know these are almost impossible to get right. Meet Elixir, a functional, concurrent language built on the rock-solid Erlang VM. Elixir’s pragmatic syntax and built-in support for metaprogramming will make you productive and keep you interested for the long haul. This book is the introduction to Elixir for experienced programmers."
If you were choosing today, would you recommend choosing Elixir over Go for web/back-end development? Would you say Go is more suited for high-performance command-line tools, and Elixir for long-term running stuff? I'm an indie developer building such a back-end (social networking/chat space), have full choice of language. Started using Go earlier this year and mostly happy with it. Should I switch to Elixir in my ne…
If you were choosing today, would you recommend choosing Elixir over Go for web/back-end development? Would you say Go is more suited for high-performance command-line tools, and Elixir for long-term running stuff? I'm an indie developer building such a back-end (social networking/chat space), have full choice of language. Started using Go earlier this year and mostly happy with it. Should I switch to Elixir in my ne…
Community: smart people (who I respect) in the Ruby community are getting really excited about (and choosing) Elixir. People like José Valim, Dave Thomas, Bruce Tate, Chris McCord, etc.
BEAM and OTP: The Erlang VM and OTP have been battle-tested at Ericsson. It's known for having 9 9's of reliability and scaled WhatsApp to millions of simultaneous connections.
HEX: like Rubygems was for Ruby, Elixir/Erlang has a budding package management system via Hex. Hopefully this becomes the canonical source for libraries.
Phoenix: Rails popularized Ruby and became the framework of choice for quickly and pragmatically developing CRUD apps. Phoenix has Rails-like conventions in building an Elixir app and has built in support for websockets. This framework is built for today's technology.
Syntax: Coming from Ruby, the Elixir syntax is approachable and understandable. It's easy to jump into without having much prior knowledge.
Kinda subjective, but those are reasons why I'm excited and choosing Elixir to build future projects upon.