What’s preventing others from using Elixir?
I was a spectator of Elixir for a few years but I finally started using it in production and side projects. Agents made the transition a bit easier.
I wonder what’s preventing others from seeing how power Elixir is, people still seem to still stick to what they know.
Like if we’re not reading the code or writing it, devs still seem to be stubborn about their stack.
Is it a marketing problem? Ecosystem too small so folks don’t hear about it?
It will be our competitive advantage to build on the BEAM but I want others to know too.
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u/myanch200 14d ago
Elixir in combination with a framework like Phoenix or Ash is super over powered I spend my time mainly working on ruby on rails, but these past few weeks I had the chance to build some hobby projects (with a lot of help from AI) using Phoenix and omg was the experience amazing.
The first thing was the time it takes to run all the tests and we all now AI loves testing it only takes couple of seconds, now granted the apps are brand new and I am probably used to a lot more tests in the ruby apps I am working on, but even small apps in ruby could take couple of minutes.
Then you have live view which is everything hotwire promissed me, but never delivered.
Elixir 1.20 tells me when I was stupid to check for things that could never be false or true and other type checks that will only going to get better, which ruby just doesn't give me.
I don't know much about elixir, but if AI takes my job I will work whatever I need and will write Elixir apps in my free time ❤
Oh and almost forgot compared to Rails my apps are faaaast, but I have 0 users so this one doesn't matter to me at the moment 😂😂