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Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024

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Re: Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024

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post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> but because the year and a half i spent reproducing functionality could have been spent adding new features What would you have used instead?

I assume the original language of the codebase

Thanks I was distracted and didn't get that

Re: Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024

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i have to be honest: as a lover of the language, and with due respect to the author, i’m really tired of these “why i picked elixir” takes extolling the same virtues (or some subset thereof) we’ve seen written up in darn near every introductory article on elixir for the last five or six years. it’s not that i think they’re wrong, at all. it’s just that they add nothing new to the conversation, they’re superficial, an…

OP did say building a startup, not doing a rewrite of a relatively mature project which is always a danger zone with blaring red sirens regardless of language.

But it's good to be reminded I guess when new shiny things come across your sceen

Re: Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024

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i have to be honest: as a lover of the language, and with due respect to the author, i’m really tired of these “why i picked elixir” takes extolling the same virtues (or some subset thereof) we’ve seen written up in darn near every introductory article on elixir for the last five or six years. it’s not that i think they’re wrong, at all. it’s just that they add nothing new to the conversation, they’re superficial, an…

Maybe it was true 6 years ago, but I'm currently playing with Elixir/Phoenix and I feel very productive, Phoenix is well design and adding new functionalities is not that hard and the code is easy to debug. On the other side, Elixir and Erlang are not that popular and every time I talk about it to other developers, they may have heard of it but can't talk about it, so it's probably not that easy to find devs for a startup. But the barrier to entry is probably what keeps the libraries well designed. For anyone interested in Elixir I would start with those books in this order "Elixir in Action", "Programming Ecto" and "Programming Phoenix Liveview".

Re: Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024

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i have to be honest: as a lover of the language, and with due respect to the author, i’m really tired of these “why i picked elixir” takes extolling the same virtues (or some subset thereof) we’ve seen written up in darn near every introductory article on elixir for the last five or six years. it’s not that i think they’re wrong, at all. it’s just that they add nothing new to the conversation, they’re superficial, an…

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

I shouldn’t, but all these posts read like distant history to me with Fog Creek gone.

Re: Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024

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i have to be honest: as a lover of the language, and with due respect to the author, i’m really tired of these “why i picked elixir” takes extolling the same virtues (or some subset thereof) we’ve seen written up in darn near every introductory article on elixir for the last five or six years. it’s not that i think they’re wrong, at all. it’s just that they add nothing new to the conversation, they’re superficial, an…

honestly these sorts of sentiments (in the link) remind me of the "lisp gives you enlightenment, lisp is the language of gods" etc. that we've heard for decades. I love lisp, but come on, gods?

Have you seen lisp? To understand even a bit if that you’d have to be god level.

Not that gods don’t make mistakes. But I kind of see where they’re coming from.

Re: Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024

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post #13

Disclaimer: Elixir is extremely productive, Phoenix is outstanding, the community is world-class, and as a result of the Erlang VM / OTP / Beam you can remove whole parts of your traditional webstack. If you haven't tried it I cannot recommend it enough. But! As a long-time Elixir Developer who has gladly used it to bootstrap many applications and companies, I have to say I think this article is actively harmful to t…

> requires any kind of offline-enabled features

Considering it requires a server this is kind of a given right?

Re: Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024

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i have to be honest: as a lover of the language, and with due respect to the author, i’m really tired of these “why i picked elixir” takes extolling the same virtues (or some subset thereof) we’ve seen written up in darn near every introductory article on elixir for the last five or six years. it’s not that i think they’re wrong, at all. it’s just that they add nothing new to the conversation, they’re superficial, an…

Long story short from a business perspective - good luck logistically scaling a dev team from 2 founders to 100 devs as quickly as your app does. Elixir devs are hard to find and are expensive.

Re: Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024

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i have to be honest: as a lover of the language, and with due respect to the author, i’m really tired of these “why i picked elixir” takes extolling the same virtues (or some subset thereof) we’ve seen written up in darn near every introductory article on elixir for the last five or six years. it’s not that i think they’re wrong, at all. it’s just that they add nothing new to the conversation, they’re superficial, an…

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

As if source code rusted except in this case, Netscape's descendant did rust -- in a different way.

Re: Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024

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i have to be honest: as a lover of the language, and with due respect to the author, i’m really tired of these “why i picked elixir” takes extolling the same virtues (or some subset thereof) we’ve seen written up in darn near every introductory article on elixir for the last five or six years. it’s not that i think they’re wrong, at all. it’s just that they add nothing new to the conversation, they’re superficial, an…

That's micro-shortsightedness. Lots of tools even OS utilities are being rewritten in a "better" language. It could be quite beneficial from a business perspective too if you're spending more time fixing issues than addressing new requirements.
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