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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…
I moved from PHP/Laravel to Elixir/Phoenix about two years ago and I can't imagine using anything else these days.
What took you away from Louisville (laravel as my tts heard it)?
What forced the switch was using Livewire; cool idea but horrible performance, poor documentation, no support, and constant rewrites. Knowing it was based off of Live View I looked into that and there was no going back.
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…
Author here! I've not been compensated by the Petal Pro devs at all. I've interacted with them exactly twice—once in support and once to submit the world's tiniest PR. I'm just a happy customer. (If that's not enough, you can dig in to the Petal Components repo and see I'm not a contributor.)
The pitch was just so direct, coupled with the perfect topic of "Want to build a SaaS? Use Elixir" I would have assumed you owned the paid boilerplate you discussed.
I unfortunately can't edit the post but I upvoted this in the hopes that people see it.
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How does LiveView compare to LiveWire?
Live View is SO much better it’s not even close. It’s faster, more reliable, easier to use, way less weird gotchas.
I haven't used it myself but apparently v3 solved plenty of weird gotchas.
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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…
> 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. This was the exact issue we encountered after I had switched a startup's backend from Node to Elixir. I was able to churn out features pretty quickly (and the switch itself turned the core batch job…
Lovely language whose community and vm taught me an absolute ton that still resonates with me today.
But for a bunch of “cats” that need to be herded, engineers tend to be fairly packish in some regards so looks like it’s Go, Java, Typescript, and TypeScript/HTML/CSS(in JS)/React for the foreseeable future
people said that since phoenix incarnation I mean we still got to so everything on phoenix meanwhile on rails we have gem for everything
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Do you have experience with Ruby on Rails? I've built apps both with Elixir/Phoenix and with Rails. Yes, the Elixir/Phoenix stack is amazing and is definitely superior over Rails in several ways; however, with regards to Bootstrapping and releasing a real-world app/business (web based), Rails is still the king.
I've got in-depth experience with many Rails apps and quite a few Phoenix apps (and many other stacks). I used to agree with your opinion, though I think Rails no longer holds a massive edge. Phoenix is now just as effective at releasing real-world products especially run-of-the-mill web apps. And when things get complex after a bit of time (usually due to business logic evolving) - much more effective. The place whe…
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…
Elixir is extremely overhyped, not because it’s not great but because most of the discourse is about how much better it is than other languages.
With Python, Rust, Go, and JavaScript I can find a ton of interesting projects and tools; tons and tons of examples of people doing interesting things, easily outweighing the language hype.
Elixir has a handful of core tools, tons of hype posting, and a smattering of introductory blog posts to those tools.
The community really has the appearance of lacking depth. (Granted I think partly that’s because the depth exists inside companies that don’t really talk about it)
Django and Rails are by far the best for small projects. It's not close.
But if you do have something active running on the server - ingesting something, holding connections open, talking independently to other systems, anything soft real time - you will very quickly run into the limits of pure web frameworks and will be forced to re-invent all manner of wheels and end up building much more than you need to. That's where elixir shines and is, IMO, the optimum choice.
Phoenix is basically "rails for when you actually need something more than build the world/destroy the world web requests". It's great for that, and those kind of projects are more interesting IMO, too. But for anything else, use Rails (or, yes, Django).
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…
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP86Svk4hzI
[2] https://dockyard.com/blog/2024/02/06/5-benefts-amplified-saw...