I’ve been using Elixir and Phoenix recently. Although the syntax looks fine to me (and Phoenix is amazing), there’s some truth to the imperative, clean syntax of C#, which I’ve been using for many years.
And that’s why I immediately fell in love with Gleam. The language is a joy to write and read. The community and Maintainer (Louis Pilfold) have a fantastic mindset, trying to make an ecosystem that develops and enjoys using.
My primary programming is working on web applications and web APIs. I know that Gleam has Wisp, but I’m not sure whether it is as stable and feature-rich as Phoenix. For those who have tried both, what’s your opinion about Wisp? Is it an okay alternative to Phoenix?
I would personally describe this as gravitating towards imperative syntax, it’s not even about type safety in a lot of cases, especially since typechecking by the compiler improves with every new elixir release. This is completely understandable and it takes some time to shift the mindset.
Obviously not, for example only liveview that is a newer part of phoenix took 6 years of active development to get to version 1.0 .
From the looks of it wisp behaves a lot in the manner which Plug does, but overall doesn’t try to build an entire framework on top of that, so it’s up to you to build the abstractions you need.
Wisp is definitely lower-level, which I personally enjoy, but have in mind that you’ll have to roll your own stuff for various tasks. Of course that equation will become more and more favorable with time for Wisp as its ecosystem and community matures.
