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by innocentoldguy 1703 days ago
Here’s my subjective suggestion and a list of things I like about it in no particular order:

As someone who has used Django, Rails, and Node, I’d recommend Elixir and Phoenix. Elixir has excellent tooling and dependency management, is functional and therefore easier to write concurrent applications with, it stores threads in private memory and uses the actor model for interprocess communications, and since it is truly concurrent, it is much more scalable than the other options I just mentioned.

Phoenix is a flexible, clean, and easy to use framework with very little, if any, magic. LiveView lets you create things like SPAs, without the use of a front-end JS framework, using standard message passing. Phoenix is also scalable as hell.

One of my favorite things about Elixir and Phoenix is the ability to handle issues in a very atomic way. If you compare an Elixir cluster with a Kubernetes cluster, Elixir is able to handle an issue with tweezers where Kubernetes would handle the same issue with a bulldozer.
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montblanc 1702 days ago
Phoenix/Elixir is so niche I don't know how you can put it in the same line as Django/Rails/Node. There are major consquences to picking something so niche most companies will not go along no matter how awesome the tech is.
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innocentoldguy 1702 days ago
Niche? Maybe in some areas. There are at least 10 companies using Elixir within biking distance of my house. I've been working with Elixir professionally for six years and have never had an issue getting a job or hiring people. Things may be different in your area.
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montblanc 1701 days ago
Yes, niche, as in not in the top 50 in Tiobe index, as in less than 25k people on the Elixir subreddit, as in around 1000 jobs in the whole of the U.S which is a fraction of the popular stacks. Niche. No matter which measurement I go with Elixir isn't anywhere near the top 20. The third one (spectrum) is actually a combination of 11 measurement metrics, so before you yell at me that Elixir devs don't use Stackoverflow - Elixir isn't niche only on Stackoverflow. It's just niche, period.

https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2021/08/05/language-rankings-6-2... https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages/

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