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Re: 10 years-ish of Elixir

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Sometimes I think to myself, why bother to submit things to HN? Everytime I submit something (and recheck twice I am first), nothing happens... until someone else resubmits the same thing.

I submitted this one 2 days ago when it was fresh.

Can anyone tell me how this works here?

Re: 10 years-ish of Elixir

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post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm going to shamelessly take advantage of your being here with a question if that's ok. Do you have any recommendations for reading material that covers Phoenix as it's used today? Back in the early 0.x days I read the Phoenix book, which was a great introduction to building an application and using Ecto, but trying to pick it up again recently I found that nothing really seems to cover using Contexts in the real wo…

Not Jose (obviously), but I have a copy of https://pragprog.com/titles/phoenix14/programming-phoenix-1-... which I think is still fairly relevant. Of course, there is always https://elixirforum.com and a good search :)

The book Programming Ecto [1] also has a chapter on application design which talks about contexts.

[1]: https://pragprog.com/titles/wmecto/programming-ecto/

Re: 10 years-ish of Elixir

#13
Congrats to José and the team! Elixir was a wonderful discovery for me a year or two ago — it's the closest I've found to my "ideal" language. You can tell, from the documentation and by using the language, how much thought went into each design choice.

Good luck on the next ten :)

Re: 10 years-ish of Elixir

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post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm going to shamelessly take advantage of your being here with a question if that's ok. Do you have any recommendations for reading material that covers Phoenix as it's used today? Back in the early 0.x days I read the Phoenix book, which was a great introduction to building an application and using Ecto, but trying to pick it up again recently I found that nothing really seems to cover using Contexts in the real wo…

Not Jose (obviously), but I have a copy of https://pragprog.com/titles/phoenix14/programming-phoenix-1-... which I think is still fairly relevant. Of course, there is always https://elixirforum.com and a good search :)

Yes, I read and can recommend that book as well. I wanted to get the little OTP guide too, but people say it's outdated.

Apart from books and forum though, there are many posts online! You can check ElixirStatus[0] or a new initiative called Beam Bloggers Webring[1].

[0] https://elixirstatus.com/ [0] https://beambloggers.com/

Re: 10 years-ish of Elixir

#15
Learning Elixir and starting to use is in projects is at the top of my TODO list for 2021. I tried to get into a while back, but being unfamiliar with functional programming concepts at the time really got me. Learning a new language and trying to grep FP at the same time was too much for me :)

Now, I'm more well versed in FP in general, and I'm excited to give it another go! Everyone I've talked to who uses Elixir on a regular basis or professionally absolutely gushes with excitement and joy when they talk about it!

Well done, and thank you Jose!

Re: 10 years-ish of Elixir

#16

Sometimes I think to myself, why bother to submit things to HN? Everytime I submit something (and recheck twice I am first), nothing happens... until someone else resubmits the same thing. I submitted this one 2 days ago when it was fresh. Can anyone tell me how this works here?

Luck, timing, friends...

Re: 10 years-ish of Elixir

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Author here! The article was published earlier this week and I have a quick addendum: regarding Erlang/Elixir, my goal has always been to bring new developers to the platform. After all, Erlang developers already have the most important part of Elixir, which is the Erlang runtime! There are also key people in both communities working hard to make sure the tooling is consistent across all languages. A lot of this effo…

I'm going to shamelessly take advantage of your being here with a question if that's ok. Do you have any recommendations for reading material that covers Phoenix as it's used today? Back in the early 0.x days I read the Phoenix book, which was a great introduction to building an application and using Ecto, but trying to pick it up again recently I found that nothing really seems to cover using Contexts in the real wo…

Have a look at this - https://pragmaticstudio.com

They have courses on Elixir, Phoenix and today have just released a LiveView course.

Re: 10 years-ish of Elixir

#18
I've picked up Elixir in 2016 and have started freelance work around 2017 doing Elixir and Phoenix exclusively. For me it is the best platform for web development and I'm very grateful to everyone involved (erlang/otp, elixir, ecto, phoenix teams and everyone else).

Happy Birth Day Elixir!

Re: 10 years-ish of Elixir

#20

Author here! The article was published earlier this week and I have a quick addendum: regarding Erlang/Elixir, my goal has always been to bring new developers to the platform. After all, Erlang developers already have the most important part of Elixir, which is the Erlang runtime! There are also key people in both communities working hard to make sure the tooling is consistent across all languages. A lot of this effo…

Congratulations on the anniversary and thank you for all of your efforts and contributions, Jose.
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