# On "Why Elixir?"

**URL:** <https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/on-why-elixir/34038>\
**Category:** Discussions\
**Tags:** releases, elixir\
**Created:** [August 27, 2020, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/on-why-elixir/34038 "2020-08-27T19:03:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![sodapopcan](https://forum.elixirforum.com/user_avatar/forum.elixirforum.com/sodapopcan/32/34668_2.png) [@sodapopcan](https://forum.elixirforum.com/u/sodapopcan)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 2:26am UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/on-why-elixir/34038/7 "2020-08-28T02:26:17Z")

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> [@dorgan](#):
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> It’s a fairly new addition to the language, though. There was distillery before(and still is!), but before 1.9 releases weren’t so “blessed” by the language itself. Now _ **reading the docs** _ to run `mix release` with a `:tar` step configured is all I need, really.

You may have missed my point… I’m not saying that I was expecting to see `release mix` up front and centre NOW—I know it’s relatively new. I’m saying that I hope beefing it up is a priority and that one magical day in the foreseeable future we’ll seeing, “Elixir is a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications with a kick-ass, brain-dead deployment process—no Docker or Kubernetes required!” (there is definitely some hyperbole in there). If there is signal out there that this is on the roadmap, please point me to it! 🙂 I’m very much talking in terms of attracting newcomers here (as well as wanting it for myself, of course).

Otherwise, when I do go to release, I’ll be pinging you for pointers 😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜

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