[cjhanks]

I guess I feel like the annoying formatting is indicative of the community, immature.

Web developers seem to follow trends; Perl -> DJango|RoR -> Node.JS -> Scala -> GoLang -> Elixir -> Something. Or, something like that. To me, it's like buying a $500 pencil and expecting that you should be capable of writing a better book.

If you get in bed with that crowd, don't expect that your program and 3rd party dependencies are going to be stable in 2 years.

[sb8244]

A lot of individuals I've seen in the community so far haven't been the type to quickly jump onto a trend. People have been thoughtful with their application design and have chosen Elixir instead of alternatives. Given how drastically different the BEAM is from these other languages, I have a hard time seeing some of the people I've met (and myself) jump to something else. My guess is that if it does happen to others, it is because they switched jobs and cannot get buy in.

Pretty unfounded comments regarding stability of packages long term. As with any community that makes it easy to publish packages, there will certainly be package churn over time. However, core libraries show 0 sign of this and Phoenix in particular has taken a very mature stance on new features.

[cjhanks]

Yes. And in 3 years (or so) when the hype-train moves on, and all that is left is the core users. It will be a much more viable choice for development, in my opinion.

I don't think anything negative of the language or core libraries.

[davydog187]

Let’s not generalize the community over one blog post. The Elixir community has been very mature in my experience.