[spacesword]

Phoenix and Elixir are trucking along nicely. Elixir 1.3 is on release candidate, as is Ecto 2.0 and Phoenix 1.2.

The big feature of Phoenix 1.2 is channel presence: https://dockyard.com/blog/2016/03/25/what-makes-phoenix-pres...

Whats coming in elixir 1.3: http://tuvistavie.com/2016/elixir-1-3/

Ecto 2.0: http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2016/02/ecto-2-0-0-beta-0-i...

Other than that the community is growing at a healthy pace. Hex packages have gone from 1000 to over 2000 in the last 6 months.

[cutler]

The problem with hex.pm is that it doesn't distinguish Elixir and Erlang packages so the total is a mixture of both which is not very useful.

[quaunaut]

Why is it not useful? You can drop erlang packages straight into Elixir projects without any issue.

[cutler]

I meant not useful in terms of gauging the output of the Elixir community.

[RobertKerans]

That should make no difference at all. Having Erlang packages alongside Elixir ones, incorporating them seamlessly into mix, is a massive plus.

[raitom]

I like how phoenix is evolving but is it really ready for production?

[chrismccord]

Yep. Companies worth hundreds of millions have been relying on Phoenix for well over a year now. Also Phoenix has been 1.0 since August last year.

[praveenperera]

Absolutely, Bleacher Report and I believe Pintrest are both using it in production.

Here is a full list of companies using elixir: https://github.com/doomspork/elixir-companies

[abritinthebay]

As an employee of Bleacher Report - yup, we use it a LOT. Everyone loves it.

It's most useful for our services (our consumer facing app is Rails atm) but it's great.