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by cultofmetatron 1105 days ago
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built my startup on elixir/phoenix. while there could certainly be a better selection of libraries, its not that hard to roll your own and elixir has straight up features that you can't replicate in most other ecosystems

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Ecto on it's own should be a good enough reason to use Elixir!
I concur.. once I wrapped my head around the way ecto worked, I couldn't help but wonder why this wasnt the way every orm works. its lightyears ahead of anything I tried in node, rust or ruby.
I've used both Ecto and the Django ORM and I have to say that the Django ORM feels a lot more intuitive and seems to be incredibly powerful. Now granted I don't have more than a few months of experience working with each, so maybe there is some elegance to Ecto that I don't grok.