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The last few years the Elixir ecosystem has started to become the simplest solution to so many use cases: - Web development with Phoenix and Liveview is immensely enjoyable and fast - AI with NX, Axon, Bumblebee - Audio and Video streaming and manipulation with Membrane - CQRS and Event Sourcing with Commanded - Embedded with Nerves to make your own devices - Mobile apps with Liveview Native ( in development ) - Queu…
The last few years the Elixir ecosystem has started to become the simplest solution to so many use cases: - Web development with Phoenix and Liveview is immensely enjoyable and fast - AI with NX, Axon, Bumblebee - Audio and Video streaming and manipulation with Membrane - CQRS and Event Sourcing with Commanded - Embedded with Nerves to make your own devices - Mobile apps with Liveview Native ( in development ) - Queu…
- ExUnit for incredibly easy tests
- Hex package manager that just works
- FLAME for the ability to scale different processes to different computers with nearly 1 line of code (the whole library itself is just a few hundred LoC if I remember)
- Ecto for interacting with SQL databases in a functional manner (I still never know how to feel about ORMs, but I was able to write a few composable queries and get rid of 90% of my SQL, so I'll call that a win)
After months of struggling with deployments, uptimes, segfaults, package times, etc I moved my webserver & data layer over to Elixir + Phoenix. It's more well tested than ever, so much easier to reason about, I trust it will scale, and deployment was a breeze.
Because of convention over configuration, I was able to get up and running _insanely_ quickly with Phoenix (way more than FastAPI). I really wish I did this months ago.
Now I'm training models in Nx, playing around with Bumblebee/Livebooks, and adding presence/live functionality to my app for nearly free.
The last few years the Elixir ecosystem has started to become the simplest solution to so many use cases: - Web development with Phoenix and Liveview is immensely enjoyable and fast - AI with NX, Axon, Bumblebee - Audio and Video streaming and manipulation with Membrane - CQRS and Event Sourcing with Commanded - Embedded with Nerves to make your own devices - Mobile apps with Liveview Native ( in development ) - Queu…
The Elixir REPL is world-class, and I agree that it's a truly killer feature of the language. I miss it terribly when I write stuff in other languages (i.e. any time I'm coding, you know, for money). Having a good REPL just removes so much of the friction you normally have to contend with in programming. You can build up ideas piecewise and test things as you go, instead of having to make guesses and run the whole da…
Comping from a LISP, the Elixir REPL really is not world-class. It's a really far, distant second. It's nice, I enjoy it more than python's personally, and more than what I remember from irb back in the day -- but nothing beats the integration of structural editing and nREPLs.
LISP doesn't have to be for you, but there's still a lot to learn from that REPL experience if the Elixir community wants to grow ;)
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You can use Phoenix without LiveView by running mix phx.new with the —no-live flag (or manually pull it out of an existing project).
Yes, I totally get that (and have been doing that). My complaint/suggestion is more around the marketing and messaging. There is so much more to Elixir than LiveView!
This is it, the final piece I wanted. Looking forward to the further stages. Apart from that, the language is 100% feature-complete as far as I am concerned.
Last time I looked at Elixir, it seemed like the consensus was "you're going to need to do Erlang too". Is that still the case, or is dipping down into Erlang no longer required?
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A news aggregator (and premium news chatbot) that indexes and analyses around ~150.000 new articles a day ( http://im.fo ) I'm absolutely certain the real time processing would be unfeasible in any other technology in terms of complexity and the minimal compute resources it's running on. Modules like broadway, ash, oban, phoenix liveview ... make it not just a pleasure to work with but insanely performant. With over…
You know that Elixir is on the low end of performance right, so you take Go/Java/C# that are close to 10x faster.
I've been using Elixir as a backend for a side project (with a Remix frontend) and it's been really pleasant and productive to work with on the backend. I appreciate how productive LiveView can be, but for my specific case I needed to handle poor network connections and LiveView was (as expected) a poor experience. I wish Elixir was able to decouple itself from LiveView in a sense in the minds of developers. Even wit…
I love elixir. I use it for basically everything. And LiveBook has become my go-to place to start building toy software. I just can't do liveview. I have a very hard time grokking it, and it has a lot of footguns. (ex: if you need to remember to perform auth checks both doing a `pipe_through` in a router and using the `on_mount` callback in a LiveView, see [0].) In fact, the fact that the above sentence has zero mean…
Sure when I need to write a REST route + its consumer in the client I die a little because I know that's the part I could have avoided...
I've been using Elixir as a backend for a side project (with a Remix frontend) and it's been really pleasant and productive to work with on the backend. I appreciate how productive LiveView can be, but for my specific case I needed to handle poor network connections and LiveView was (as expected) a poor experience. I wish Elixir was able to decouple itself from LiveView in a sense in the minds of developers. Even wit…
I love elixir. I use it for basically everything. And LiveBook has become my go-to place to start building toy software. I just can't do liveview. I have a very hard time grokking it, and it has a lot of footguns. (ex: if you need to remember to perform auth checks both doing a `pipe_through` in a router and using the `on_mount` callback in a LiveView, see [0].) In fact, the fact that the above sentence has zero mean…
If you have other footguns in mind, feel to shot me an email at jose dot valim on gmail!
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> seeing salaries consistently lower than more mainstream languages That seems surprising to me as an Elixir developer. Are you looking in the US, or elsewhere?
I keep an eye out in the US and there just aren't many of them out there. And you have to be careful because some of those are * "Bob wanted to try out Elixir, so now we use it for this one microservice, but we're mostly a PHP/Rails/Java/Python/whatever shop and we'd like to rewrite it one day, because Bob left a few years ago" - places where someone wanted to play with something shiny and new. * Early stage firms wh…
(mostly joking, if anyone is actually interested in ML, NLP, and Elixir, I have more pragmatic reasons for switching. Feel free to get in touch)
Super-excited for this release. I wish someone would put some resources into the Elixir IntelliJ plugin. I've tried, but I just can't enjoy using VSCode (vs IntelliJ based IDEs, Visual Studio, etc.)