Ask HN: Betting on the Phoenix Framework

5 points by drum 4y ago ↗ HN

Hi everyone - long time Rails developer here. I've been building a project with the Phoenix Framework lately and am absolutely loving it.

The project requires a high number of Websocket connections and concurrency features - which technically speaking, makes Phoenix a great tool for the job.

My only concern is about wether there is a strong enough community to keep the project going for years and years to come. Jose Valim and Chris McCord have been doing an incredible job and I respect them to the nth degree.

My question to the community is twofold - does anyone have thoughts on the future of the Phoenix Framework, and has anyone made a gamble on an upcoming technology that turned out to be the right or totally wrong decision?

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PaulHoule 4y ago ↗

Well when it comes to runtimes that are good for concurrency there is a very short list: Java, .NET, and erlang.

verdverm 4y ago ↗

Golang too

weatherlite 4y ago ↗

And Node, which has a community about 20 times larger than Elixir. It's really far from certain Elixir is gonna survive long term. Truth is besides quite rare use cases Elixir isn't a good fit for most companies.

jonathan-adly 4y ago ↗

I believe so.. It really owns the batteries included + concurrency niche. There is enough builders in that space to keep it going for a long time!