But the JS Party podcast has covered it in the weirdest way possible and Thinking Elixir had a very good conversation around all of PETAL that I’d recommend. I haven’t gone deep with Tailwind so I can’t speak to the power of it. Tailwind CSS is a well-liked CSS framework. With Elixir, we see companies like Discord that are repeating that success. Whatsapp has built with Erlang to great success running an enormous system on a very small crew. It is an enormously capable virtual machine built for providing soft real-time performance. It does concurrency very well for both multi-core machines as well as clustered distributed systems. The BEAM was built to do distributed systems at Ericsson, primarily for telecom use, which meant handling concurrency and maintaining good latency. (Changelog’s platform is built with Elixir and José Valim, the creator of Elixir, has been on the podcast 3 times.)Įlixir is built on an extremely well-respected runtime, the BEAM, which traditionally powers Erlang. Because of the people involved, Elixir has stylistic heritage from Ruby, but it is very much its own language. A developer-friendly high-level language in the Functional Programming school.

I find Phoenix more powerful and explicit than Django as well.

I’ll have to take witness reports on that because I did Python and Django in the before-times. So we take Phoenix, a web framework with heritage from Rails and the same kind of focus on developer experience and productivity without the kind of magic I’ve understood causes a lot of issues and confusion around Rails. So what is it? Well, it helps you build web applications. (PETAL was coined by Patrick Thompson to describe a particular set of tools he was combining with good results.

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