The Elixir community would LIKE it to be a spiritual successor for Rails, but it really isn't. If only because of the learning curve of understanding Elixir. Sorry to disappoint anyone but Phenoix is not going to be the new Rails/Django.
> If only because of the learning curve of understanding Elixir. Sorry to disappoint anyone but Phenoix is not going to be the new Rails/Django.
The learning curve isn't too bad.
I've been a Rails developer for quite some time and am picking up Elixir / Phoenix in my spare time while building a single side project. This is my first real attempt at picking up a functional language too.
The project I'm building is an ambitious project (users, accepting stripe / paypal payments, lots of data modeling, real time aspects, decent amount of logic I haven't implemented in other more familiar frameworks, etc.) but thanks to the community and open source projects to look at I'm making reasonable progress.
Of course I'm not as productive as I am in Rails but that's because I'm only putting in a few hours a week into this project (while learning Elixir / Phoenix as I go).
First I think a very large number of developers don't care for functional programming.
Then Phoenix is mainly run by only two persons, Chris McCord and José Valim (who also manages Elixir and Ecto). If I compare the pace of development and what you get out of the box with PHP/Symfony (I don't know RoR) it's quite clear that Phoenix is not there yet (without even speaking of the difference in ecosystem size).
