Why Elixir?

[AstonJ]

I’m going to add this talk here too:

54) ElixirConf US 2018 – Closing Keynote – Chris McCord

Although we’ve seen similar patterns before (i.e. drab) LiveView still totally blew me away and I’ve rewatched the video 3 times now. Now tomorrow morning I get to write tons of React form validation code and repeating the same/similar code in my changeset validations on the server and dealing with all the plumbing… while thinking how much easier it would be with LiveView with no perceptible performance degradation. The way it was presented it seems like you could make LiveView “components” (s…