If this thread isn’t useful (and I certainly understand why you say it is not), as a newcomer I certainly find it interesting.
Not having built anything other than a toy app so far, I’m getting a little nervous about deployment. Libraries struggling to find maintainers is another thing that concerns me. Both these points I have come across before this thread, though, so can’t say I learned about them in this thread.
Personally, I couldn’t care less about static typing (Elixir being dynamic was a big attractor), syntax, or any of that. The most annoying thing about the syntax for me was that coming from Ruby, I kept thinking I was in Ruby which would slow me down, but I got over that. Otherwise, I’m pretty into the syntax—even the pin operator! Maybe going with prime and no re-binds would have been nicer, but it took me very little time to get used to pinning and the amount of times I rebind I single var in a function is far more than I pin.
ANYWAY
@shanesveller, I’m interested to hear more of your thoughts on hot code reloading if you would. I understand what it is, but I don’t fully understand its implications and why it wouldn’t be desirable (again, I’ve never deployed anything Elixir or Erlang). I’ve always thought of the pursuit of vanity as throwing as many services and acronyms into your tech stack as possible… deploying with just your language and getting zero-downtime-for-free seems like a very noble pursuit to me. I do understand that not everything can be done with OTP, but how far it can seemingly get you, especially in the greenfield phase, is very attractive to me.
Of course, I’m also the type of person who will read about a new tech craze and 9/10 times think, “Damn, that’s really interesting, but I hope I never have to use it!!! …and oh lord I hope my employer doesn’t find an excuse to start using it…”
I might be a little off base here, but I’m very curious about all of this. As a beginner I would love to see deployments mix release right up front and centre in the language’s marketing material. I mean, Phoenix is already spouting NO JAVASCRIPT why not NO DOCKER! I dunno, again, I may be off base here.
