this (and @dimitarvp’s earlier response) are exactly the attitude i find so frustrating. i don’t need to be educated on the reasons phoenix, ecto, mix, elixir, whatever are actually some kind of ideal state and the elixir community, actually, is the greatest. what i need is a community that is more open minded and less hostile to ideas that stray from the orthodox
a great example is the debate over the way elixir misuses mix.config in a way that makes integrating with environments where you need dynamic reconfiguration or injection of configuration via things like etcd/vault an unreasonably difficult goal. people with experience tried to warn the community away from things like using compile time macros to read config, generating code based on config and only reading config from static configuration files but were ignored because using mix or woefully insufficient “:system tuples” was “more elixiry”. distillery only recently got config providers and they still only cover a narrow slice of actual real world needs
or, the other option is to become that person, to go out there and do it and get others onboard. We have plenty of that too - whether it’s PragDave’s way of building Elixir apps or the Raxx framework.
The tricky part is getting enough of the equation right to get others onboard. JMHO 
Have we met IRL?
