[conradfr]

You have some good points but this is overtly negative.

First deploying nowadays is pretty similar for real world apps: container, dependencies, env vars etc.

But sure if you don't need what the Beam offers there's probably no advantage to use Phoenix over Laravel.

Second, Elixir is faster than PHP 8.2. I should know, I've ported an api from Symfony to Phoenix and ran both versions concurrently on the same server with the same data. As you mention caching, I would say using ETS will actually make your Elixir version even faster compared to using Redis or Memcache.

Lastly, I don't really appreciate and agree with the "forgive and brute-for" and 'made for sloppy web programmer" comment, I think it says more about the way you code than something else.

PHP in strict mode with type hints and tools like PHP Stan is not "sloppy", it's actually better than Elixir in this regard.