Ask HN: Why isn't Phoenix/Elixir more mainstream?

Re:Ask HN: Why isn't Phoenix/Elixir more mainstream? by john_the_writer on Friday September 29, 2023 @09:26AM (#37703881)

What you'll find though is that FE teams don't care what you're running the api through. And they won't know how to capitalise on the BEAM. They will send you larger and larger requests, and as nice as BEAM works, the bottle neck will aways be the database.

I've seen 8 years of Elixir, and still get asked to return the world when FE wants data. No they won't ask for bits.. They want the user info and the company info for the user, and the client list for the user, and the company details from the client list for the user.. and they want it all in one response. BEAM becomes a useful tool you'll never reach for.

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Re:Ask HN: Why isn't Phoenix/Elixir more mainstream? by icedchai on Friday September 29, 2023 @09:33AM (#37703995)

I hear ya. I'm mainly looking at it for smaller projects (micro-SaaS, 2-to-3 people sorta stuff), not anything with a large team.

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Re:Ask HN: Why isn't Phoenix/Elixir more mainstream? by HerrBertling on Friday September 29, 2023 @11:45AM (#37705919)

Since I’m coming from the FE side - that’s exactly what is bothering me. I feel like Remix is a good step into the right direction, baking a backend-ish part of the stack into the FE. And crossing the networking gap in an elegant way. I see the same in Phoenix. Well, I guess I’ll fiddle with it for a bit and see if I can even handle the stack at all.

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