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Why Elixir? Common misconceptions
#0181: Why Elixir? A Rebuttal to Common Misconceptions Why Elixir is not just a good platform for modern development, but a great one - addressing common misconceptions Tags: braingasm, elixir, erlang, beam, phoenix, liveview, ash, nx, functional-programming, scalability, 2025 Source: OpenAI [ED: I am sick and tired of having to justify “Why Elixir?” so I decided to write down all of the reasons why in one spot!] Braingasm Why Elixir? A Rebuttal to Common Misconceptions I’m all-in on the Elixir programming ecosystem. Seriously.
[ED: These are not small apps; WhatsApp famously handled billions of daily messages with a tiny team by leveraging the BEAM, and Discord’s chat infrastructure scaled to millions of concurrent users.] Elixir isn’t a niche tool for weird problems — it’s a modern, reliable, elegant stack for building robust, scalable, and maintainable systems with a small, high-quality team. It enables full-stack delivery with far less code, fewer moving parts, and better leverage — from the front-end (Phoenix) to real-time interactions (LiveView), to declarative backends (Ash), to on-platform ML (Nx).
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