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by barrell 731 days ago
Don't forget:

- ExUnit for incredibly easy tests

- Hex package manager that just works

- FLAME for the ability to scale different processes to different computers with nearly 1 line of code (the whole library itself is just a few hundred LoC if I remember)

- Ecto for interacting with SQL databases in a functional manner (I still never know how to feel about ORMs, but I was able to write a few composable queries and get rid of 90% of my SQL, so I'll call that a win)

After months of struggling with deployments, uptimes, segfaults, package times, etc I moved my webserver & data layer over to Elixir + Phoenix. It's more well tested than ever, so much easier to reason about, I trust it will scale, and deployment was a breeze.

Because of convention over configuration, I was able to get up and running _insanely_ quickly with Phoenix (way more than FastAPI). I really wish I did this months ago.

Now I'm training models in Nx, playing around with Bumblebee/Livebooks, and adding presence/live functionality to my app for nearly free.