[mrkurt]

It's hard to beat Rails for "need to make a CRUD app in front of a DB". Phoenix is pretty close, though.

Where it really shines is anything beyond CRUD. I want to make my CRUD apps more dynamic, and build collaboration features into otherwise boring apps. LiveView makes it wickedly simple to do things like typeahead find: https://twitter.com/mrkurt/status/1434969788275691522

And Elixir + BEAM gives me reasonable plumbing for collaboration features. Even something as simple as presence makes CRUD apps more powerful.

So the broader set of Phoenix strengths aren't ActiveRecord vs Ecto. Phoenix helps me build a more powerful app because it has a broader set of strengths. And it's almost as good at Rails for just CRUD, so I don't give up much to get those features.