Lovely Week with Elixir
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Lovely Week with Elixir
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#2Welcome to the λ-side! We've been using Elixir and loving it for 3+ years.
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#3I love Elixir. Phoenix makes web development a pleasure and LiveView is even more exciting.
I would love to find a job doing it.
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#4I really like Elixir and Phoenix. I just wish I had more reasons to use them!
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#5Started a little CRUD-app project in Phoenix (Ruby on Rails to Elixir's Ruby), and my expectations have been totally surpassed. It's pretty amazing.
Working with Elixir is really cool, too, coming from C++ & JS backgrounds. Pattern matching feels like a programming technique from the future.
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#6I love Elixir. Phoenix makes web development a pleasure and LiveView is even more exciting. I would love to find a job doing it.
Dude, LiveView is wild. It feels kind of magical, and I think people are gonna start adopting slowly, then all at once.
There's an awesome blog post on their website. where Chris McCord, creator of Phoenix, builds a real-time Twitter clone in 15 minutes.
https://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/build-a-real-time-twit...
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#7Elixir is decent and I've worked with it a fair amount in production systems... Mostly Rubyists seem to really click with it. And ruby idioms are all over it - you can taste its history and proximity to ruby's ecosystem.
As a scala dev that ended up working with elixir for a couple years, my opinion is that a typesafe elixir-like language would really bring BEAM back into the mainstream. Akka is alright but it's shoehorned onto the JVM. BEAM is good as long as you don't need to do heavy computation, but lack of type-safety (need to use dialyzer?) means that shit breaks in prod that the compiler would have caught. And yes, you can mitigate this with boatloads of testing and data-validations with ecto or whatever. But every time we broke shit that a compiler would have caught I cringed.
It's a great path for rubyists to move to Elixir/BEAM and every rubyist should give it a whirl! I'm back working on scala and akka.
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#8If you're interested in using Elixir, jump right into Phoenix with LiveView. It is fantastic for prototyping new tools. Once you learn the basics of LiveView, it's ridiculously easy to create the web UI that interacts with your Elixir back-end.
For a while I was using PhoenixElm as my stack and I enjoy programming in Elm. But there's a lot of boilerplate you have to tediously connect for every input and output on both sides of the server and client.
LiveView eliminates all that boilerplate by letting you write templates in Elixir that are macro-compiled to javascript. Getting rid of that boilerplate eliminates time writing it as well as time debugging the extra complexity that boilerplate introduces.
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#9I love Elixir. Phoenix makes web development a pleasure and LiveView is even more exciting. I would love to find a job doing it.
Dude, LiveView is wild . It feels kind of magical, and I think people are gonna start adopting slowly, then all at once. There's an awesome blog post on their website. where Chris McCord, creator of Phoenix, builds a real-time Twitter clone in 15 minutes. https://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/build-a-real-time-twit...
God I hope so. I loved Erlang and OTP when I tried it back in the late 00s and it never really caught on, despite many of its strong points being what most websites would look for.
Hopefully with the focus on the web and the fresh coat of paint Elixir has given the ecosystem it will eventually gain more adoption. But I still have my doubts because despite looking more mainstream than Erlang, it's still kind of a "funny language".
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#10Elixir is decent and I've worked with it a fair amount in production systems... Mostly Rubyists seem to really click with it. And ruby idioms are all over it - you can taste its history and proximity to ruby's ecosystem. As a scala dev that ended up working with elixir for a couple years, my opinion is that a typesafe elixir-like language would really bring BEAM back into the mainstream. Akka is alright but it's shoe…
As someone that uses elixir for webapps and ocaml/reasonml for frontend work, I hope that https://gleam.run gets traction, seems like a nice BEAM language with types that is evolving quickly.