[bcardarella]

> Half the libraries we used were abandoned

People really need to unwarp their brains from how they judge libraries in Elixir compared to other ecosystems. Erlang is 30 years old. Elixir sits on top of that stability. Elixir will very likely never reach 2.0 because it doesn't need to. And if a 2.0 does come it will be simply to remove deprecated functionality.

Not having 12 major version releases per year means what you think are "abandoned" are actually stable and perfectly fine to use.

In Elixir, we don't really care about the last time a version was pushed. I regularly use and rely on libraries that haven't been touched in years because they don't need to be touched.

[hello_computer]

If the libraries worked, we wouldn't have had to play code archaeologist and find out that half our dependencies had been abandoned since 2017. Even something as simple as a JSON encoder--which is rock-solid in every other language I've used--had a number of bugs (this was four years ago, so memory is hazy, but it had something to do with ambiguity between arrays, lists, or tuples) Erlang is stable, but Elixir sure as hell isn't. Back in 2019, it seemed as though every point release brought a slew of breakages--and usually over the most trivial and pointless things, like adding an underscore to a built-in for "consistency". I've been developing for over 20 years, have used all of the mainstream languages, and Elixir was the absolute worst.

[benzible]

> Even something as simple as a JSON encoder--which is rock-solid in every other language I've used

JSON will be built into the next release of the BEAM: https://erlangforums.com/t/erlang-otp-27-0-rc3-released/3506...