Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024
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#2I moved from PHP/Laravel to Elixir/Phoenix about two years ago and I can't imagine using anything else these days.
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#4i 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, and frequently don’t go on to give a reader any idea of how the decision worked out.
here, i’ll start: i rewrote my startups platform in elixir about six years ago and it was a terrible business decision. not because elixir was bad —to the contrary, it was fantastic —but because the year and a half i spent reproducing functionality could have been spent adding new features that would have translated to new customers, and that would have translated to an additional million dollars when we eventually sold our bootstrapped business (obviously if i’m quibbling about a million bucks im not talking about a venture backed business here.)
in terms of scratching my intellectual itch it was great, but i can’t defend it from a business perspective and whenever somebody brings up the notion of rewriting a core platform i tell this story.
now can someone please write some elixir articles about cool stuff they did with it and get those on the front page?
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#5I moved from PHP/Laravel to Elixir/Phoenix about two years ago and I can't imagine using anything else these days.
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.
Re: Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024
#6i 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…
> but because the year and a half i spent reproducing functionality could have been spent adding new features
What would you have used instead?
Re: Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024
#7i 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…
> but because the year and a half i spent reproducing functionality could have been spent adding new features What would you have used instead?
Doesn't matter much, really, as long as it's something with a big ecosystem.
Re: Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024
#8i 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…
Rebuilding an existing codebase in any other language would fit that argument as well.
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#9I moved from PHP/Laravel to Elixir/Phoenix about two years ago and I can't imagine using anything else these days.
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.
What makes you say that?
I think, once you learn both frameworks, they’re just about as productive as the other.
Re: Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024
#10i 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…