[icedchocolate]

Why do people program new projects in Erlang as opposed to Elixir? Especially when it’s a web project and Elixir has Phoenix?

[SkyMarshal]

Zotonic isn’t new, it’s one of the oldest Erlang web apps, predates Elixir by like 5yrs.

That said, I wish it were in Elixir. Has some nice features, but would probably get more adoption if it were in Elixir.

[lawik]

As an Elixir enthusiast I would say, if you prefer Erlang to Elixir or is more experienced with it and will be building web stuff Elixir is one more dependency which could br avoided.

I like Elixir. Not all Erlangers do.

Also, this mentions being something of a CMS. Phoenix is not that.

[rkangel]

Web frameworks are something where the one objective advantage of Elixir over Erlang really shines: macros.

Phoenix uses macros very effectively to reduce the sort of boilerplate that is common in Web frameworks. Macros aren't the solutions to all problems, but in this case they're great.

[caiocaiocaio]

I really love Elixir as a language. Phoenix looks nice from a distance, but I found it to be very ugly and messy when you get down to the nitty-gritty. I wrote a personal project in Phoenix but I'm thinking of translating it, because I really want to wash my hands of that framework forever.

[conradfr]

What don't you like that is specific to Phoenix?