[bicx]

I built a fintech backend system using Eljxir a few years ago, and I loved it. However, I had to use Go and Python as a sort of escape hatch when companies offered massively time-saving SDKs in those languages but not Elixir. The ecosystem doesn’t seem to have really grown much since then. Looking around at the state of things, lots of important OSS packages have not been maintained, and that’s concerning. I absolutely love Elixir and the careful thought put into so much of the language and primary frameworks. However, I have become more skeptical that the actual ecosystem will hit critical mass. I really wish it would. I see a lot of articles on HN about Elixir, but my feeling is that it’s just more interesting than the constant stream of JS and Python we’ve had for decades now.

[ch4s3]

In my experience a lot of OSS elixir libraries are basically done. They get updated if the language changes, but otherwise they just do what they do well and they resist feature creep.

[conradfr]

Elixir is one language where you can find a library on Github that has not been updated in 6 years but will work flawlessly.

I actually do small PRs to update deps etc on those kinds of repo and people are usually are OK to merge.