Re:Reasons to use Phoenix instead of Rails
by mooreds on Sunday November 26, 2017 @03:28PM
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> in fact, using Phoenix for a while made me miss a lot of the available libraries, plug-in solutions and wide range of community knowledge.
This is my main reason for focusing on Rails rather than Elixir at present. The sheer breadth of gems available for rails to quickly build sophisticated applications is hard to beat for any up and coming language/framework.
That said, my gut feel is that many of the developers who build and maintain these gems have moved on and that Elixir is the new hotness and will probably catch up in the next few years.
Re:Reasons to use Phoenix instead of Rails
by regulation_d on Monday November 27, 2017 @01:02PM
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I wonder if you might extrapolate on which libraries, plug-in solutions you missed in Phoenix.
Having said that, while I don't find any major reasons to opt for Phoenix instead of Rails, my main reason to work with Elixir/Phoenix right now on side projects is that it won't make me unlearn Rails which I can always go back to, in fact, using Phoenix for a while made me miss a lot of the available libraries, plug-in solutions and wide range of community knowledge.
So ATM I have more reasons to choose Rails over Phoenix, but I suppose that's why these sorts of articles are important, publicity to increase a community and fulfill Elixir's biggest need right now.