Re:Ask HN: Why isn't Phoenix/Elixir more mainstream?
by davidthewatson on Friday September 29, 2023 @11:38AM
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Good point. I can relate.
I worked in Ruby on Rails and our particular culture of Rails was not the purity that DHH encourages, but a kind of hipster collection of things like Cucumber, where the intent diverges from reality. That is, we understood the design intent of the DSL barrier-lowering interdisciplinary facade to non-technical people writing tests.
However, that is not what happened in reality. What happened in reality is that only techs wrote Cucumber tests and they struggled mightily with abstractions that had good intent, but bad ROI, given their misapplication.
The constant cacophony of unforeseeable DSL interactions was that team's annoyingly persistent foot-gun postmortem.
I worked in Ruby on Rails and our particular culture of Rails was not the purity that DHH encourages, but a kind of hipster collection of things like Cucumber, where the intent diverges from reality. That is, we understood the design intent of the DSL barrier-lowering interdisciplinary facade to non-technical people writing tests.
However, that is not what happened in reality. What happened in reality is that only techs wrote Cucumber tests and they struggled mightily with abstractions that had good intent, but bad ROI, given their misapplication.
The constant cacophony of unforeseeable DSL interactions was that team's annoyingly persistent foot-gun postmortem.