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So, is Elixir really the best language for building a bootstrapped SaaS? Python/Django, I admit, despite their flaws, have arguments. For a solo developer, Common Lisp is hyper productive. Its web offering is minimal but if you know the web, plug in a DB, HTMX, a login system and you’re on tracks. CL won’t have shiny dashboards (wait, does it? Grafana dashboard for SBCL and Hunchentoot: memory, threads, requests per second, GC state…) and a supervision tree (only ruricolist/moira to monitor and restart background threads), but you can get a GenServer-inspired actor library (mdbergmann/sento), and I believe they share runtime features: efficiency, live reload is doable. Last but not last, CL is maybe easier to use for other tasks: ingest data efficiently (SBCL is fast), small-ish binaries, scripts (now easier with my CIEL helper).
Now, after this comment of mine I've been pointed to Torch and Ecto's Gen.Migration, the two looking super useful. Good points. I also started to write my CRUD admin dashboard for Common Lisp, let's see how this goes…