[frail_figure]

Not OP, but TS (as in TypeScript, right?) is not even in the same universe as Elixir with Phoenix when it comes to building backend services.

It's a very productive and readable programming language with excellent documentation and conventions, and the most ergonomic way of handling concurrent operations (thanks BEAM) I've encountered.

The VM it runs on was originally designed for telephone switches, which, it turns out, cleanly translates to the internet/http era.

It makes it trivial to do soft-realtime because it's just actors (GenServers) passing messages.

I invite you (and others) to try it out and do a small weekend project. It'll make you reconsider reaching for TS on the backend :)

[apt-apt-apt-apt]

Thanks, interestingly Elixir handles concurrency in what seems like a natural way, actors passing messages to each other. It's cool that this way is used in production, though it seems to be used mainly in niche distributed scaling.

[hosh]

What people are finding now when building agenic AI orchestrators is that they are reinventing some of the ideas behind BEAM and OTP. The big one being queues (mailboxes), but also fault isolation.

Async runtimes can’t really do preemptive scheduling so those end up using other methods that, while getting low latency, may not improve reliability or reduce variance in latency.

Orchestrating tasks across a number of different services that are not in your control becomes a distributed system where not everything is reliable.

[nesarkvechnep]

Not at all. It’s used to build standard web applications too.