- Durable, 'enterprise grade' software patterns are baked into the runtime and into common, stable libraries that everyone uses
- You can use Ash, which pretty much entirely solves architectural considerations for many types of backends
- The tooling for inspecting and enforcing style (tidewave, credo, dialyzer, Dan's "vibe" ecosystem tools) is far beyond what I see in other ecosystems
- Ecosystem coverage for pretty much everything you need, including numerical software
- Excellent performance escape hatches (NIFs)
And, as has been shown in various benchmarks, agents are quite good at it.
My one problem in practice has been that getting tests right is hard. LLMs need a lot of cajoling to not build flaky tests with all the concurrency, and I find myself spending hours rewriting parts of the test suite once or twice a week.
- Durable, 'enterprise grade' software patterns are baked into the runtime and into common, stable libraries that everyone uses
- You can use Ash, which pretty much entirely solves architectural considerations for many types of backends
- The tooling for inspecting and enforcing style (tidewave, credo, dialyzer, Dan's "vibe" ecosystem tools) is far beyond what I see in other ecosystems
- Ecosystem coverage for pretty much everything you need, including numerical software
- Excellent performance escape hatches (NIFs)
And, as has been shown in various benchmarks, agents are quite good at it.
My one problem in practice has been that getting tests right is hard. LLMs need a lot of cajoling to not build flaky tests with all the concurrency, and I find myself spending hours rewriting parts of the test suite once or twice a week.