samtechie

I don't know which companies you work for. Where is the code a masterpiece? In all my work, I have yet to see this elegant code. Before AI, we had to deal with human slop. Byzantine, spaghetti messes. I haven't been lucky. I once worked with code that made me want to pull my hair out. I look at LLM-generated code, and it's mostly better than any code I have worked on. But maybe it's just me.

Before I try a web framework, I want to know if there's an easy way to do authentication, authorization and multitenancy. Multitenancy may have multiple approaches but am talking about something as simple as row-based multitenancy to get things started. But I also understand this may be a lot for version 0.1. Either way, this is still fantastic work and thanks for sharing.

Interestingly, for me it is the exact opposite, I tried Django/Python and it's more difficult for me to grok. Somehow I just find Rails easier and more straightforward.

Fair enough. In your opinion, is Gleeunit sufficient as a testing framework for Gleam or is it a work in progress which is also understandable as the language is still relatively young?

Gleeunit seems a bit sparse. I just see a few functions. For example how do I do mocks? Is this the the whole testing story assuming I am not targeting JS?

Gleam is a fantastic language but I didn't see much about testing apart from a very small package called gleeunit which is a binding to Erlang eunit. If I don't know anything about Erlang, how do I do tests in Gleam? I need some more guidance on this.

Looks nice but am curious about how you connect to and use a database. Is there some middleware or library to do this?

I understand they are already modifying the vaccine to handle the B.1.351 variant so all that will be needed is a third booster shot for people who have already got the AZ vaccine.

Isn't GraphQL supposed to solve this problem? You have one GraphQL API and each client requests only the information it needs. Maybe the responses are still JSON but I would think you would come very close to an API that serves all the clients.

I haven't used Clojure before but I have worked mostly with Elixir another niche functional language. In my experience because of the limited talent pool, most companies tend to prefer experienced candidates and if they are to take you on as a junior, you probably have to be significantly experienced in another mainstream language. It's very hard for someone to take a punt on a junior Elixir or Clojure developer who has little or no experience in any other language. Generally, niche languages are not a great bet if you are just starting out. You can of-course build the experience by working on side projects, blogging or speaking at conferences. In short its a labour of love. If you learn Clojure or in my case Elixir for the explicit reason of getting a job you might become very frustrated and disappointed. This is my experience.

It was more of an aquahire and Jose Valim the creator of Elixir left Plataformatec to start his own consultancy. All assets related to Elixir were transferred to the community. The rest of the core contributors are not affiliated to Plataformatec therefore the acquisition had no effect on Elixir.

Not related to the discussion but as an East African and Ugandan( East Africa has five countries). I find this quote extremely offensive. I kindly request you to stop perpetuating such ignorant and degrading narratives even for the sake of comparison.

I have been using Elixir for about a year and the only problems I have found is the much smaller ecosystem. It's still a niche language. This means you may be the first one to encounter some problems although I have found the community quite helpful. Even if the number of libraries cannot really stack up to Rails the few libraries tend to be high quality. Overall, I find things more explicit and understandable. There's a lot less magic and I find functional code easier to reason about. At the end of the day, every popular language was niche at one time but some people took a chance on it. Maybe Elixir hasn't yet gone mainstream but its a fairly healthy ecosystem with many brilliant, passionate people.