People acting like they need permission

I keep meeting people who go "I'd love to work with Elixir". They can.

Elixir is fully working and ready to use. The ecosystem is alive and healthy. It is smaller than ideal for the market overall but way stronger than people seem to think.

Phoenix is a competitive foundation for web applications and has been so for a long time. Supabase sells baseline Phoenix features as differentiators to other ecosystems.

Ecto is an incredibly solid database layer.

If you want the whole-hog framework that provides structure for you and let's you do more with writing less code. Security, access, policies, compliance. Consistency and multiple ways to consume the business logic. Ash is here already and people run big ol' serious business on it. Probably the most actively supported project in Elixir.

Nerves is ready when you need to do hardware. Especially for production use.

Oban should truly be sold as a feature all on its own. Just like Supabase. People talking about Durable Execution and whatnot. Oban is an incredibly full-featured orchestration system that runs off of Postgres and uses the BEAM's distribution featureset to massive advantage. We just like to call it a work queue.

And we keep building, things keep getting made and possibilities expand.

But if you are concerned that the ecosystem isn't ready or that there is something more needed. There always is. And  there isn't. You should pick up and build stuff with it if you want to work with it. It's there for you.

Thank you for reading, I appreciate it.

(Yes, I'm aware that people have jobs that don't let them. It has to start somewhere though.)