Two years of Elixir at The Outline

Re:Two years of Elixir at The Outline by mrdoops on Friday October 26, 2018 @12:53PM (#18310963)

> "I think Elixir has reached peak adoption"

I'd say the opposite. Core libraries have reached stability and engineering hours are switching to making easy what classic imperative/OOP paradigms have trouble doing:

- Dynamic web development without giant Javascript dependencies(Liveview, Drab, etc)

- Scalable distributed systems without giant teams (Firenest, Phoenix Channels/PubSub)

- Concurrency and data-infrastructure (Flow, Genstage, OTP)

- Reactive event-driven systems: OTP and the Actor model makes event-sourcing easier than you'll see anywhere else.

- Usual conveniences: User-management, HTTP clients/libraries

The next 2 years are going to get wild for Elixir.

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Re:Two years of Elixir at The Outline by hassan_shaikley on Friday October 26, 2018 @05:38PM (#18312898)

For sure, and sockets are first class citizens and testing is at the forefront for all these things. Elixir is going to kill it.

And there's a lot of potential there for game backends as sort of a neat bonus. Just saying. : )

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