[numair]

This is an incredibly offensive and insulting comment about people you don’t know, regarding software you openly state you don’t use on a daily basis.

I would care a lot less if we were talking about billionaires building commercial startups, but you’re literally attacking open source contributors. Moreover, my personal experience in using LiveView and interacting with the community has been the exact opposite of yours, so I find your comments to be totally misleading for people who might think that your walls of text have any nuggets of wisdom in them.

I’ve tried a lot of open source software that left me thinking, “wow, what a waste of my time.” For some reason I never felt a need to openly attack the authors of these low-commercial-value-for-the-creator, volunteer-driven projects. You might want to consider directing your critical eye toward the actual problems in this world, rather than volunteer programmers’ projects that didn’t met your personal, highly-opinionated requirements.

The parent comment is Exhibit A for why so many people refuse to get actively involved in the open source software scene, and why so many drop out.

[nickjj]

> Regarding software you openly state you don’t use on a daily basis

Perhaps I was too critical in some of the replies and should have phrased things in a more positive way but I did use Elixir / Phoenix / LV on a daily basis for a pretty long time.

Over the course of those 18 months I'd estimate putting in 250-300 hours of programming time in spurts while writing 3 applications totaling around 9,500 lines of assorted Phoenix / LV code. Not a lot of code by any means, but enough to put a decent dent towards developing the main app I was building which is where I encountered those issues at the time. I have no agenda or reason to make anything up. I want to see Elixir and Phoenix succeed in the end. I just decided to temporarily put it on hold until it gets over the early adopter phase.