Could Elixir ever support a good plugin system and wouldn't it be awesome if it did?

It should be possible, but we already have complete solutions like WordPress, Joomla, PhpBB… for this advanced kind of things, so it would be a waste of time creating just the same in Elixir, if you need a personal customized solution for you, I’d recommend embedding the plugins inside the whole app.

It’s such a pain creating a general CMS solution, as you need to think in terms of reusability, modularity and extensibility among other things. The more use-cases you want to cover, the more complex it becomes.

We’re discussing pretty much the same here: Web Forum Software in Elixir / Phoenix

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