Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?

Re:Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret ch... by toolz on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @07:18AM (#27193263)

Interesting, some of the libraries you mention such as graphql and http, I feel there aren't better libs that exist than absinthe and ranch/cowboy.

Which graphql library do you prefer over absinthe in other ecosystems?

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Re:Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret ch... by phtrivier on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @07:40AM (#27193411)

From what we understood (back when we shopped for a lib, which was a long time ago), absinthe advertised itself a lib to write graphql servers ; we were looking for a graphql client,so we ended up using a smaller lib.

(And it's entirely possible that we simply picked the wrong lib ! Which is, still, kinda my point. Every elixir lib is "young" by virtue of the language being "young", so you can't use "age" as a heuristic for being the "right" lib. Happens for all"young" ecosystem,so not particular to ex.)

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Re:Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret ch... by christhekeele on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @03:30PM (#27199835)

> absinthe advertised itself a lib to write graphql servers ; we were looking for a graphql client

> And it's entirely possible that we simply picked the wrong lib !

This is 100% a failure of a decision-making process, not the language ecosystem. Picking the wrong library could be avoided by the smallest amount of diligence, it's pretty language agnostic.

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