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Re:Show HN: PeerGym – A Health Club Database Made with Elixi... by steveeq1 on Friday January 08, 2016 @01:34PM (#10867058)
I keep on hearing about Elixir/Phoenix. What is the advantage of putting this on Elixir vs something like Rails or Laravel?
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Re:Show HN: PeerGym – A Health Club Database Made with Elixi... by legutierr on Friday January 08, 2016 @02:26PM (#10867501)
You get the whole Erlang VM and toolchain. So, improved scalability, faster runtimes, compiled code...

This discussion fleshes out some of the benefits:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9427371

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Re:Show HN: PeerGym – A Health Club Database Made with Elixi... by acconrad on Friday January 08, 2016 @02:28PM (#10867511)
Super fast performance, easy to develop in, and great functional programming environment with being able to call libraries from both Elixir and Erlang.
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Re:Show HN: PeerGym – A Health Club Database Made with Elixi... by nicwolff on Friday January 08, 2016 @02:23PM (#10867469)
Well, apparently it won't fall over when it's on the HN front page!
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