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arrowsmith ◴[] No.44328363[source]
Ah man I'm really happy to see this and excited to try it out.

As an Elixir enthusiast I've been worried that Elixir would fall behind because the LLMs don't write it as well as they write bigger languages like Python/JS. So I'm really glad to see such active effort to rectify this problem.

We're in safe hands.

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mrcwinn ◴[] No.44328727[source]
Worried it might fall behind… further? I love LiveView, Phoenix, Elixir, OTP. But the ecosystem is a wasteland of abandoned packages.

If Phoenix.new helps solve that problem, I’m all for the effort. But otherwise, the sole focus of the community leaders of Elixir should be squarely and exactly focused on creating the incentives and dynamics to grow the base.

Compare, for example, Mastra in TypeScript or PydanticAI in Python. Elixir? Nothing.

Not here to bash. It’s more just a disappointment because otherwise I think nothing comes close.

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1. mervz ◴[] No.44332142[source]
This is such a weird thing to say and I see it all of the time. It sucks people have been tricked into thinking a library must be updated every 2 weeks in order to still be relevant.

You think just because an author bumps the version number of a library it's somehow better than a library that is considered complete?

It boggles my mind that people actually think this way.

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2. sodapopcan ◴[] No.44340525[source]
You must never have been a Ruby developer. “I notice this library hasn’t been updated in 8 days, is it still being maintained?”