Would you still pick Elixir in 2019?
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Would you still pick Elixir in 2019?
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Re: Would you still pick Elixir in 2019?
#2Very interesting language (and OTP platform), I wish I learned it earlier.
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#3Love Elixir.
But every other word being emphasised in this article was tiring to read.
Re: Would you still pick Elixir in 2019?
#4Very interesting language (and OTP platform), I wish I learned it earlier.
Thanks for your work on Milestone/Droid ;)
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#5What an awkward introduction with the ideological pronouns.
Re: Would you still pick Elixir in 2019?
#6Elixir just really nice. I gave it a shot again and it is super smooth experience nowadays. Distillery, mix, iex https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-lambda-elixir-runtime
The only downside is that the out of the box performance is subpar for http services but it is still acceptable.
Re: Would you still pick Elixir in 2019?
#7Interesting perspective on the JavaScript ecosystem.
I never had any debugging issues in particular, but the dependency hell drives me nuts, too.
Re: Would you still pick Elixir in 2019?
#8Yep. Would bet on it again. It's proven itself to me and my employer, and has increased developer productivity and joy dramatically. Bad code looks bad, good design emerges organically, and macros let you hide the plumbing where needed, and optimize things away at compile time. Not even mentioning the wonderful world of OTP.
Re: Would you still pick Elixir in 2019?
#9Sure.
I am building a quite involved video learning platform as we speak with Elixir and Phoenix. No regrets so far, and if anything as time goes on, I'm becoming more and more happy with the decision.
The community is really great and there's a lot of quality libraries available. Not just libraries, but entire production systems too. For example https://changelog.com/ is written with Elixir / Phoenix and their platform is open source'd at https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com. There's so much good stuff in that repo to learn from.
Also the Elixir Slack channel has 20,000+ people in it and the official forums at https://elixirforum.com/ are very active.
Re: Would you still pick Elixir in 2019?
#10Elixir just really nice. I gave it a shot again and it is super smooth experience nowadays. Distillery, mix, iex https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-lambda-elixir-runtime The only downside is that the out of the box performance is subpar for http services but it is still acceptable.
Cowboy measures its latency in microseconds, what bottlenecks are you running into specifically?