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		shantnutiwari on Aug 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Thoughts on Elixir, Phoenix and LiveView after 18 ... Yeah, everyone here is creating code in Elixir/Lisp/Haskell -- languagesI almost never see on any job board or job description again, its fine to use them, just they get far too much attention for the amount they are used in the wider world

dns_snek on Aug 14, 2023 [–]

For reference, Django has been downloaded roughly 2.8 million times in the past week while Phoenix has been downloaded 240k times. There's no doubt that the user base of Elixir is smaller, but it's not as tiny as you seem to think.

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