Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024

Re:Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapp... by cigrainger on Friday February 09, 2024 @12:34AM (#39311734)

Hey! I gave a talk at Code BEAM Europe this past year about our experience with a year of machine learning on the BEAM [1]. That is, the impact on our business of going 'all in' on Elixir from a more fragmented stack (Python for ML and ETL). We actually did this twice, once in 2020 from a JS front end/Elixir back end to LiveView, then again in 2022 for the ML/ETL stuff. We benefitted massively on both occasions. I recently sat down with Brian Cardarella at DockYard to talk about this and they wrote up some posts about it [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP86Svk4hzI

[2] https://dockyard.com/blog/2024/02/06/5-benefts-amplified-saw...

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Re:Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapp... by karmajunkie on Friday February 09, 2024 @08:10AM (#39314463)

now this is what i’m talking about…

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Re:Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapp... by thibaut_barrere on Friday February 09, 2024 @09:11AM (#39315007)

I overall agree with your sentiment (and this is not some bashing on Tyler's blog post by the way) - Elixir is good enough that we could focus on "Showing" instead of "Telling", at least that's what I'm trying to do more and more.

And the OP presentation about ML is spot on in that regard :-)

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