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Re:Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret ch... by jswny on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @09:29AM (#27194277)
What you said about releases is somewhat true, but I’d like to clarify.

It has absolutely changed a decent amount over the last few years. Because it used to suck. It’s not really in flux, more like being improved because everyone knew it sucked. It’s in a much better state now and I’m very happy with it where I wasn’t before.

Also, I would say that “in flux” isn’t a proper characterization because it was always backwards compatible. Nothing broke, they just improved the experience through better methods.

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Re:Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret ch... by phtrivier on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @12:07PM (#27196640)
Fair enough. I just haven't fully recovered from the PTSD of "deploying something that reads environment variables at startup" four years ago.
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Re:Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret ch... by jswny on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @01:53PM (#27198435)
Absolutely feel that. The `runtime.exs` config that they added a while ago has been an absolute godsend and really fixed 90% of my complaints with deployment. It unified all config for deployments and development and made it all runtime!
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