Re:Ask HN: Why Isn't Elixir More Popular?
by johnklos on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @05:14PM
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Got me. Running Akkoma on Elixir is a piece of cake, relatively speaking. Trying to run Mastodon on Ruby by simply using the latest version of the required Ruby components hasn't worked for me, ever.
The idea that we'd need to keep a snapshot of modules from a specific date in order to run certain software is ridiculous, and the idea of running it in a container like Docker is just giving in to bad practices. Too often it means things are too fragile to update when there are security issues.
I haven't seen this happen with Elixir. What do they do better / differently from Ruby that updating doesn't cause the house of cards to come crashing down?
Re:Ask HN: Why Isn't Elixir More Popular?
by abhisgup on Friday October 11, 2024 @02:10AM
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You are not exactly deploying an entire OS as the overhead of that would be huge. You are deploying an isolated process group having the bells and whistles of the OS you like.
The idea that we'd need to keep a snapshot of modules from a specific date in order to run certain software is ridiculous, and the idea of running it in a container like Docker is just giving in to bad practices. Too often it means things are too fragile to update when there are security issues.
I haven't seen this happen with Elixir. What do they do better / differently from Ruby that updating doesn't cause the house of cards to come crashing down?