Why I use (& love to use) Elixir!
Probably “just” because I’m in a very lucky position.
→ Single developer deciding everything on my own.
I will call myself still an un-professional Elixir developer.
But the things I do with Elixir, works (very very well) form my application areas.
→ Small scale application backends (non of them have > 100.000 active users).
I often came along not finding one “best practise” solution to solve my problems in Elixir.
But I find a hand full of possible solutions and most time take the easiest in my view and have a look if it works.
I’ve learned to love this multiple opportunities.
If I’m in doubt my solution isn’t good enough - telemetry comes to my rescue.
I see the dynamic typing still as charming to me.
Often I’ll prototype things just fast, as time is the most expensive thing in my work (bugs are the second).
So in some larger projects I also of course use Dialyzer - and yes it’s not perfect.
About the package ecosystem. Yes there are viewer. But I’m glad of it.
Working with other large ecosystems you’ll get forced to - there is certainly a package for it - we’ll take it as this would be cheaper.
Not taking into the account of not knowing the quality of the package in up front.
Seeing yourself changing the package with another package later.
That’s really not a fun thing - so I’ve stopped working like that.
Means, yeah there are still things to solve on my own - and having fun doing so.
About the deployments. I did a lot with all of this moving parts (Reverse Proxy, Docker, …).
And now moving in the same direction as sasajuric or hauleth.
For my small scale applications it’s definitely the cheaper way of operations.
I call them atomic deployments - one thing to start - one thing to destroy.
In the end! Thanks to all the people bringing Elixir to live.
& letting me my fun with programming.
PS: No I won’t use Elixir for an Game Engine or for Desktop GUI applications.
