Lots of people start out the same way, I’ve seen it with 4 client teams I’ve worked with - ultimately they find the regular Elixir/Visual Studio install does the job without containers complicating everything. Another thing is that filesytem speed in Docker for Mac is dreadful - seen all sorts of hacks to work around that too, NFS mounting being one that particularly stood out. Still say, run your Postgres etc in Docker, but your development workspace, that’s overkill.
bryanhuntesl
bryanhuntesl
I would say as well, perhaps we the community need to do something to make it easier to install Elixir on the various desktops, what are you running, did you have any particular pain points getting Elixir installed? Is the fact that you have to install both Erlang and Elixir to have a development environment an inconvenience. I’ve created a topic if you’d like to share your experience. Thanks, B
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H12
Thanks! My specific issue is a social one, not a technical one (my work locks down homebrew usage on dev boxes due to security concerns).
But I’ll contribute to your new thread – I’ve definitely had a non-zero number of issues installing Elixir on my personal machine.
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