[tr888]

This is an extremely odd way of making technology choices - especially the arbitrary 5 year limit that means having to use an older version of a framework.

> There were many quality of life improvements between Elixir 1.7 of 2018 and the Elixir 1.15 of today, but for most of our application coding these would make little to no difference.

There were also a few security fixes.

[miragecraft]

The author isn’t using the version from 5 years ago, he use the latest version.

The 5 year limit is regarding not having major/breaking changes.