[jFriedensreich]

for me its hard to justify betting on something without a compelling edge computing (eg cf workers) story in 2023. i could not even think of a case where beam would be the right fit for a webapp/webpage except maybe a static rendered status page for something that runs on beam anyways. and i say this as a diehard erlang fan who would love to have a justification to use it more. of course there are plenty of services/ systems where beam is godsend but nothing that would fit phoenix’s target.

[benzible]

> for me its hard to justify betting on something without a compelling edge computing (eg cf workers) story in 2023.

fly.io? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28621478

> i could not even think of a case where beam would be the right fit for a webapp/webpage except maybe a static rendered status page for something that runs on beam anyways.

LiveView / the "PETAL stack" are my first choice for web applications due to productivity & developer experience. Great summary here: https://thinkingelixir.com/petal-stack-in-elixir/

[jFriedensreich]

fly.io is cool but no real alternative. a compelling edge computing story would include freely moving edge functions to service workers and back if they should work offline or the request patterns change and having < 10ms cold starts with full scale to zero.