What an awkward introduction with the ideological pronouns.
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Would you still pick Elixir in 2019?
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#12I started read Programming Elixir and Programming Phoenix. Elixir is amazing.
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#13I would like it a lot more if it wasn't forced on me by my coworkers.
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#14Yes. I prototype in Node, but then usually move all the important stuff to Elixir.
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#15Could someone give a more concise reason for using Elixir? I have a "rule of 3" for checking out things - the third time I hear it mentioned and it seems interesting, then I'll go check it out.
Elixir is past 3 times - so I will check it out for sure! - but this article didn't seem to actually say anything (seemed more like a PR piece that was trying not to be technical, and the main argument appeared to be "well, it's not javascript!").
The part that actually talked about Elixir listed some Pros that didn't seem that unique. What's the "killer feature" of Elixir - or is it just a combination of "good features"?
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#16Love Elixir. But every other word being emphasised in this article was tiring to read.
I agree. If you emphasize too much, it feels like you're trying too hard to convince me, kind of like news headlines IN ALL CAPS.
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#17The JavaScript Fatigue argument is not good. There's simply no data that backs it and nobody is forced to use new libraries only because they use JavaScript.
I've seen third party dependencies churn on Elixir as well (packages that are no longer maintained or alternatives that are better) - I think it's an inherent problem with using dependencies and has nothing to do with the programming language in which those dependencies are written.
> As a developer I just want to get on with my work, not have to read another Hackernoon post on how everything from last week is obsolete because XYZ framework
My recommendation is that you don't read Hackernoon. This seems like a very ineffective way to level up your developer skills.
Edit: I agree that Elixir is very nice and would pick it over JavaScript for backend heavy applications without thinking. I just don't think this argument makes any sense in that context.
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#18If the erratically emphasized text bothers anyone else, you can get rid of it by running the following JS in console:
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#19Elixir 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?
I assume perf comment is in relation to AWS Lambda, for which the Elixir example they've put up is severely below par perf wise
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#20I keep wanting to be hyped about elixer but the performance benchmarks confuse me. If you look at the tech emperor benchmarks[1] phoenix makes the list at #46 registering 16% of the performance of the top framework. I'm willing to sacrifice performance for readable maintainable code but it just surprises me that its that slow.
Anyone know whats going on there?
1. https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r17&hw=...