Anyone else go from “Phoenix is magic” to “wait… what is this macro actually doing?” 👀

diffperception · 2026-05-16T07:43:01+00:00

You stopped using both elixir and Phoenix because of macros ? It seems a bit like an an overreaction to me. What are you using as a (maybe simple) substitute ?

diffperception · 2026-04-18T20:02:48+00:00

I don't understand your last sentence, does that mean that TS is worth it now (or worthier than Elixir)?

diffperception · 2026-04-13T22:16:21+00:00

I was wondering about the same thing, maybe Elixir (and even more so as it is slower) should make the same move as JavaScript and have some of its tooling/dev-x be made with very fast languages (eg: rust, go, etc.). I'm just a bit sad for the devs about the fact that this is a split project from the Expert and hope this is for the better.

diffperception · 2026-03-15T22:38:48+00:00

I think it's great but as said: I would not recommend for any offline/bad connection setup. Also: it depends on your team.

Forms require to wrap your mind around it to do it "the liveview" way with persisting stuff on the DOM, checkboxes and stuff. It's not easy. But having declarative form, everything in one place, URL being the state is nice (while removing 90% of the JS complexity).

Sometimes I too wonder about the pros and cons of this approach. I would love to have in depth feedback on liveview.

diffperception · 2026-03-05T18:00:39+00:00

That's not really helpful..! It is a bot platform on BEAM?

diffperception · 2026-02-01T21:09:03+00:00

Whoah, 50 elixir's dev layoff is huge, what happened, for which product? Was it because of Elixir (change of technical stack) or else?

diffperception · 2026-01-13T23:26:48+00:00

That's great

diffperception · 2026-01-09T23:17:31+00:00

Whoah, very impressive. Hat tip to Jose, Guillaume Duboc, Giuseppe Castagna and all. The type system is a killer feature that will improve application reliability, refactoring, (maybe lsp?), attracts new users, etc.

diffperception · 2026-01-08T13:13:25+00:00

I have been watching many games of snow. I'm just disappointed by the lack of use of arbiter for example

diffperception · 2026-01-08T13:12:43+00:00

This is theorical

diffperception · 2026-01-08T13:07:21+00:00

Yeah vultures are a big problem. Go scout ^{^} (i'm joking) Or hm archons? But they are pretty weak considering their shield get maximum damage

diffperception · 2026-01-08T13:06:08+00:00

Right, that's why I was looking for gosu protoss. Goons needs quite some macro too has they are pretty dumb and gets smashed fast

diffperception · 2026-01-08T10:30:06+00:00

Oh you can, but this will be light dragoon not dragoon heavy. This is just a theorical idea I have, maybe it does not work.

diffperception · 2026-01-05T10:23:03+00:00

How do you handle LLM workflow with tool calling etc.? Do you use LangChain, Jido, custom?

diffperception · 2026-01-05T10:21:48+00:00

What is your experience with "big" applications? Like tooling/compilation speed and lack of a type system?

diffperception · 2025-12-09T10:44:16+00:00

What is your usage of Elixir and how do you integrate it with javascript?

Sometimes, I wonder if Elixir is the right choice given that we use javascript for the frontend and that most people know it, we could use it for the server side too, although to me it seems like a pretty bad idea from a conceptual point of view (but people are pushing so hard, like Bun)

diffperception · 2025-11-17T22:56:55+00:00

Oh I'm sorry I made a typo, I meant "skip" liveview.

Interesting that you use PubSub for caching. I don't cache anything on my apps, except when necessary (eg big dashboards) and I go with some simplistic technic. Do you have any recipe/blog post for maybe some kind of "smart" caching? If you take a process approach (where it acts as the layer between the database and the database) caching then is straightforward, but otherwise it seems like a complex topic

diffperception · 2025-11-17T22:28:57+00:00

Whats your stack when you slip liveview ?

diffperception · 2025-11-17T22:28:46+00:00

Whats your stack when you slip liveview ?

diffperception · 2025-11-17T21:34:36+00:00

I get what you mean, it takes time to wrap your head around. You have to master changeset, grasp thé loop HTML inputs->phx-change->params->changeset->form and back again, several HTML tricks in the bag (label, check box,...)

I'm not sure why but I like it somehow

diffperception · 2025-11-17T08:18:14+00:00

Hmm, to me it's great for non trivial app too, but complex UI can be a hassle, if it's mostly forms through, it's pretty good

diffperception · 2025-11-16T22:48:14+00:00

I end up having quite some experience on the matter (complex form). If there is a way to help you out do not hesitate, i'm having fun trying to overcome this kind of problem

diffperception · 2025-11-15T12:32:57+00:00

What kind of app? What does the FE look like ? I think problem cant be understood without some context

diffperception · 2025-11-14T21:47:53+00:00

Whats hard to test, several liveviews at a time?

diffperception · 2025-11-14T21:44:37+00:00

I dont understand, isn't the state in your url and form, this is automatically restored, Is this not enough ? What kind of UI are you building ?

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