I have to pay more attention to this. Do you mean the discussions around new Elixir features, or do you mean critique of rebar ?
I don’t really see a monoculture—It might be true that there are some solid implementations that most people are using, but anyone is free to do their own alternative implementations: plug/raxx, ecto/moebius, etc. There is no guarantee that people will use it, but nobody is stopping anyone, and I don’t see people like Peter Saxton (creator of Raxx) being banned from speaking at conferences because he dared to build an alternative to Plug.
And what other software ecosystems do we lack integrations for?
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It’s a balance - on the one hand you want robust discussion and perhaps a somewhat clinical dissection of ideas to truly see whether they are worth pursuing, and on the other, you don’t want endless debate.
Those libraries are awesome and usually there is no need to even look for something else, and even if someone attempts to develop an alternative, the first question will always be “but why? Can’t you just use X like everyone else?”
