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I'm in the very early stages of building what will be a pretty large web app with Phoenix and so far I really like it.

I have a lot of prior Rails / Flask experience and minimal Elixir experience but you can still figure things out for the most part.

It's kind of funny but, even at this Elixir newbie stage I feel more confident reading and tracing most Elixir code vs Ruby.

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Yeah, it's interesting, I've had the same experience. There's not so much magic lurking beneath the surface. Things are relatively easy to track down when you do need to figure things out; otherwise, things are pretty intuitive.

And when it comes to performance, threads and queueing, not having to deal with duct-tape and gum solutions like Resque (Ruby's "One Ring" (I love it and I hate it)) makes such a big difference.

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