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

Post by dqv » Fri, Feb 09, 2024, 1:28 AM UTC

zelphirkalt wrote: post #58

y04nn wrote: post #23

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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 st…

What is the best freely accessible Phoenix tutorial? I recently searched a bit, tried a bit, but then ran into a problem, that should not have happened according to the tutorial. I guess the tutorial was outdated (got the RoR vibes from years ago). I could not fix it, due to the lack of understanding of how Phoenix works and what it wants me to do. Gave up again (for the second time) on learning Phoenix. Is there an…

Post by zelphirkalt » Fri, Feb 09, 2024, 1:33 AM UTC

pdimitar wrote: post #37

farhanhubble wrote: post #30

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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.

That really depends though. Part of the time you are right but there are legitimate businesses settings where not shipping by the end of next week can mean missing out on much-needed $50K or so revenue.

Post by hansonkd » Fri, Feb 09, 2024, 1:36 AM UTC

kylecazar wrote: post #60

hansonkd wrote: post #32

I love Elixir, but I have to disagree with the principal aspect of this post. As an engineering leader what I look for when picking tooling for SaaS which essentially boils down to two things: 1) How expensive and difficult will it be to scale the Org. 2) How difficult will it be to implement product features. I attempted an Elixir startup and found that it failed at both. The language was lovely to use and very smar…

You make some good points that I don't want to detract from -- but isn't setting the bar for finding a dev at 'built and scaled a unicorn level app' a little high? Are there really that many of those

Post by pdimitar » Fri, Feb 09, 2024, 1:43 AM UTC

zelphirkalt wrote: post #63

pdimitar wrote: post #37

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That really depends though. Part of the time you are right but there are legitimate businesses settings where not shipping by the end of next week can mean missing out on much-needed $50K or so revenue.

Often a feature pressure of "ship next week" is due to bad management and planning though. Often engineers already foresaw similar needs and were told no before. Then suddenly it is urgent.

Post by farhanhubble » Fri, Feb 09, 2024, 1:45 AM UTC

pdimitar wrote: post #37

farhanhubble wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That really depends though. Part of the time you are right but there are legitimate businesses settings where not shipping by the end of next week can mean missing out on much-needed $50K or so revenue.