I just wanted to say that I recently got back into Elixir after many years of barely touching it (not really by choice). Funnily enough, the reason is Claude Code.

In the past three months I’ve built an app to help me track when things in my fridge are about to go bad, another one to help me practice speaking slower, and most recently an app to keep all of my agents in sync across platforms and machines.

I’ve noticed that when I build projects with Python + React, Claude Code isn’t nearly as good as when I’m working with Elixir/Phoenix. I think a big part of it is how little code you actually need in Elixir to make something useful. That means Claude has less context to deal with and tends to produce better results.

On top of that, Elixir is a very simple language to understand, which makes debugging much easier.