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Honestly doubt the AI stuff is going to move the needle much if you can't even have a dependable S3 client.
Ah man I'm really happy to see this and excited to try it out. As an Elixir enthusiast I've been worried that Elixir would fall behind because the LLMs don't write it as well as they write bigger languages like Python/JS. So I'm really glad to see such active effort to rectify this problem. We're in safe hands.
Worried it might fall behind… further? I love LiveView, Phoenix, Elixir, OTP. But the ecosystem is a wasteland of abandoned packages. If Phoenix.new helps solve that problem, I’m all for the effort. But otherwise, the sole focus of the community leaders of Elixir should be squarely and exactly focused on creating the incentives and dynamics to grow the base. Compare, for example, Mastra in TypeScript or PydanticAI in…
Ah man I'm really happy to see this and excited to try it out. As an Elixir enthusiast I've been worried that Elixir would fall behind because the LLMs don't write it as well as they write bigger languages like Python/JS. So I'm really glad to see such active effort to rectify this problem. We're in safe hands.
Same, I watched a video from Theo where he says Next.js and Python will be the best languages because LLMs know them well, but if the model can infer, it shouldn’t be a problem.
I'm surprised they are investing into this. I checked Phoenix recently because I was interested in LiveView and there isn't even an official AWS SDK for Elixir. Honestly doubt the AI stuff is going to move the needle much if you can't even have a dependable S3 client.
Phoenix creator here. I'm happy to answer any questions about this! Also worth noting that phoenix.new is a global Elixir cluster that spans the planet. If you sign up in Australia, you get an IDE and agent placed in Sydney.
- ability to run locally somehow. I have my own IDE, tools etc. Browser IDEs are definitely not something I use willingly.
- ability to get all code, and deploy it myself, anywhere
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Edit: forgot to add. I like that every video in Elixir/Phoenix space is the spiritual successor to "15-minute rails blog" from 20 year ago. No marketing bullshit, just people actually using the stuff they build.
Does anyone know any great resources to learn how to design agents? Tool agnostic resources would be awesome.
I'm surprised they are investing into this. I checked Phoenix recently because I was interested in LiveView and there isn't even an official AWS SDK for Elixir. Honestly doubt the AI stuff is going to move the needle much if you can't even have a dependable S3 client.
https://hex.pm/packages/ex_aws https://hex.pm/packages/ex_aws_s3
I've usually not seen more than 3 or so official SDK for most services and there are a lot more programming languages than that. For example Microsoft's Graph API doesn't have an official Ruby client, they have one that sort of works.
I'm surprised they are investing into this. I checked Phoenix recently because I was interested in LiveView and there isn't even an official AWS SDK for Elixir. Honestly doubt the AI stuff is going to move the needle much if you can't even have a dependable S3 client.