Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix

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.

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.

All languages are a wasteland of abandoned packages, i.e. there is a very long tail of stuff no one has maintained for years. It’s all relative to the mindshare. For its size, Elixir is doing quite well.

It's not the long tail. It's that the HEAD of packages in Elixir are also often poorly maintained or not maintained. The fundamental question for any developer: can I be productive quickly? Despite all that Elixir has going for it, the answer is often "no."

Want a first-party client library for the service you're using? Typically the answer is "too bad, Elixir developer." And writing your own Finch or Req wrapper for their REST endpoint simply isn't a valid answer.

>For its size, Elixir is doing quite well.

I'm actually arguing the opposite. Elixir is not doing well because of its size. So how can that be influenced and changed?

What packages in Elixir have you found unmaintained/missing in the ecosystem? Genuinely curious.

anything OAuth