[vlunkr]

Also, the size of the elixir community and the libraries available is completely dwarfed by rails. Elixir, Phoenix, all the core stuff is really high quality, but in many cases you might doing more work that you could have just pulled from a gem in Ruby. It's unfortunate IMO. It's an underrated language.

[pythonaut_16]

Very much this.

I think the community tends to overestimate the ecosystem’s maturity which is one of the big things holding it back, both because it blinds the community to areas that need improvement and leads to bigger shocks when newcomers do unexpectedly run into the rough edges.

[arrowsmith]

This is true, but AI is closing the gap.

"Take this Ruby gem and write the equivalent functionality in Elixir" is something that LLMs are very good at.

[weatherlite]

That's over simplifying things ... no, complex gems cannot simply be transformed to Elixir with ChatGPT. You'd have to have an expert in both languages fixing all the bugs.

[cess11]

Do you have some examples?