alt Hacker NewsI really hope that Elixir / Phoenix will gain more traction.
It is very easy to write a server with it, hosting and deploying is painless, upgrading it (so far) has been painless, linting and debugging has been a breeze.
If you're coming from Ruby, then learning Elixir requires a small mental adjustment (from Object Oriented to Functional). Once you get over that hump, programming in Elixir is just as much fun as Ruby! :)
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arrowsmith • yesterday at 10:59 AM
And if you're coming from Rails you can start here ;)
Agree. The one thing LiveView is missing is 1:1 Tailwind and Shadcn libraries that are more or less interchangeable with the huge ecosystem around them. I just want to be able to pull in popular components for the wider dev community. There’s some commendable attempts at UI libraries for LiveView, but they are too opinionated stylistically or just slightly off mainline shadcn. I don’t really want to hang my hat on this type of thing and later get burnt when it’s no longer maintained (which is more often the case). Also, the AI tooling for Elixir is greatly lagging which is disappointing as that language is particularly well suited for it.