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0 pointsjosevalim7y ago0 comments

> But who wants to sit idly and wait for three years for a language to evolve?

That's not what I meant at all.

Look, I am not trying to invalidate your experience. Nor I am implying you should wait 3 years for things to get fixed. Nor I am saying that Elixir is better than Rust.

I just want to point out that, for someone starting with or using Elixir today, their experience may be different because 3 years is a lot for a language and ecosystem where v1.0 was only 5.5 years ago. Deployment involves many concerns and even if some particular scenarios have not evolved accordingly, you can be sure others have. The same applies to Rust and other languages, they are improving all the time.

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inferiorhuman7y ago

I just want to point out that, for someone starting with or using Elixir today, their experience may be different because 3 years is a lot for a language and ecosystem where v1.0 was only 5.5 years ago.

Distillery was (is?) broken less than a year ago. Ending up in a situation where such a key component (deployments) is developed and understood by only one person for such a long period of time speaks very poorly to the oversight and development process of Elixir. Beyond that it creates a distrust that Elixir will continue to work or prioritized appropriately — deployments worked on BSD for some period of time.

The last message I got from Github from BSD user commenting about distillery not working was in February 2019. After that it devolved into "here's how you get distillery working in Docker." That's the kind of low quality engagement I walked away from, and that's the reason I continue to recommend against Elixir or Phoenix for new projects.

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inferiorhuman7y ago

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