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by Whiteshadow12
950 days ago
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It's talked about a bit on Twitter with the hashtag #MyElixirStatus.
Discord makes use of it as well. Same with Supabase. The problem is the languages one would hear about, fall into the OOP category, functional languages tend to not be as fashionable when you do get into one, you become almost a zealot. It's hard to fight the imprinting a language has with its first fans, Elixir because of its Erlang origins tends to have the identity of telephonic-based use cases. Similar to how Rust gets its reputation as a specialist language (cli,kernal, etc) even though you could use it for web apps as well. The last reason is, it's really hard to fight the gravity pool of NextJS and React. Personally my circle and company and country are solidly on the side of C#/Java/PHP/Python and React/Angular, the average developer who fits into that grouping might not have even heard of Svelt or SolidJs when they do hear about it, they immediately make some snide comment about JS fatigue, even though that hasn't been a thing for a while. |
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Indeed. I love Elixir and I even struggle with choice when I don't need much or any server-side functionality.
There was a Jekyll-style project for Elixir some years ago but it fell into bitrot and deprecation. I'm still hoping somebody resurrects it or builds an equivalent, because using eex to build a static site is a really great experience.