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Few years ago, I was developing in Erlang and a bit in Elixir. That was very enjoyable, because the features of those languages (and especially the OTP framework) makes many things way easier.
I've been looking back at Elixir for a few weeks for one of my project, and I'm worried.
95% of the libraries I would need have not seen any commit since a few years. What's more frightening is that most libraries listed on awesome-elixir[1] seems to be unmaintained too. Almost like the Elixir community died 5 years ago (which I do not believe).
Is this normal? Would you trust a seemingly unmaintained library? If not, would you implement all of that work from scratch?
[1] - https://github.com/h4cc/awesome-elixir
- Python: https://github.com/Pyrlang/Pyrlang
> libraries can be created and not need constant breaking updates.
Yeah, but I've been traumatized by the Javascript ecosystem where a library can end up abandoned any day without warning.
> As an Elixir developer, I never go to Awesome Elixir to search for libraries.
I needed a full implementation of the iCalendar RFC (including recurrence rules), this is a solved problem in Go, Python and Javascript, but not in Elixir.
And I didn't want to spend weeks on partially implementing that huge RFC.
I ended up using Rambo[1] and an external binary in Go that I ship with my release in a Docker image.
I set up a build system based on Makefiles to build everything properly, and compile-time configuration per environment to locate the binary.
[1] - https://github.com/jayjun/rambo