If any of you knows a resource (website, docs, articles) where I can access to see a comparison of how both of these ecosystems works, it would be great.
Delving into NodeJS a bit, I feel like there is a lot of similarities:
- npm ↔ hex
- Chrome V8 (Javascript → C++ → machine code) ↔ Erlang Runtime (Elixir → Erlang → machine code)
- As far as my research can tell both ecosystems can run asynchronous code but would love to read more resources about this topic if exists.
- NodeJS speed depends on asynchronous processing whereas Erlang depends on ultra lightweight synchronous processing (optionally asynchronous).
One thing I am trying to get my head around is a missing layer. NodeJS is not a framework, but isn’t it doing a lot of the work that a phoenix web server is doing, or is it more fair to compare Elixir with NodeJS and Phoenix with ExpressJS?
The purpose of the comparison is not to see what is superior as obviously the use cases may be different, but it’s more like to understand where they are similar and where they are different. I am just brainstorming with you!
