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A comment on 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 KZeillmann on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @10:42AM (#27195224)
We tried it and moved away from it. A few reasons - one is IDE support, which has been mentioned in this thread. The other was release configuration. At the time we were working on it, it was more difficult than it should have been to use env variables at runtime (rather than build time).

I'm used to the Spring Boot approach - start with having different Spring profiles for different environments, and then let your secrets come in via env vars, but doing this via Distillery at the time required some hackery - they wanted you to build a QA build and a prod build, which didn't make much sense. Maybe it's better now, but that turned me off a lot to using it.

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Re:Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret ch... by josevalim on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @11:36AM (#27196105)
> Maybe it's better now, but that turned me off a lot to using it.

Sorry to hear KZeillmann! For those wondering, releases - which is one of the ways you package your Elixir project for production - are part of Elixir itself since v1.9 (~2 years ago) and reading secrets from env vars is supported out of the box. Just put the relevant code in the config/runtime.exs file.

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