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Re:Reasons to use Phoenix instead of Rails by sergiotapia on Sunday November 26, 2017 @10:17PM (#15784564)
It's underhyped because the concepts Elixir brings to the table are most likely alient to most Rails developers (myself included at the time!)

Most people think it's about a faster activerecord, it's not. It's so much more!

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Re:Reasons to use Phoenix instead of Rails by regulation_d on Monday November 27, 2017 @12:59PM (#15789408)
I really like Ecto for several reasons, but mostly because it makes every database call super obvious. If you Repo.something(), you're probably hitting the database.

A couple other reasons I like it: 1. It's makes shooting yourself in the foot with N+1 queries really difficult. 2. It's not married to Phoenix. I haven't tried this in a while and maybe this isn't representative of the current state of things, but last time I tried to use AR in a non-Rails project, I ended up switching to Sequel gem.

For a nice, if not slightly biased, comparison of AR and Ecto, I recommend Darin Wilson's talk "Thinking in Ecto"[0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQxopjai0CU

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