IMO the biggest thing missing from the ecosystem is a proper database. Mnesia doesn’t cut it, so we’re all left using Postgres et al which feels like a total waste of the BEAM’s potential.
I actually started an experimental side project in this area several months ago and it has been going surprisingly well. Will have to make a post about it soon.
Speaking of which, a proper cross-platform UI framework – probably made with Rust as there are several of them in the last years – and wrapped in OTP actors, would be probably the last ever UI framework invented. Or I hope so. Because having each UI element accept messages individually while still having “parents” is IMO the best paradigm for UI.
Haha, I came here to say the same thing. I’m hoping to add bulkwalk PR to snmp-elixir in the coming weeks. I may try and break out some of my network management framework to release as open source as well. Would be curious to hear your needs in this area.
A higher level and simpler (i.e. lower in code) web framework would be nice to have. Not even on the levels of Django, but Rails. Convention over configuration, simpler DB access interface that does more out of the box and requires you to write fewer queries, exposing fewer abstractions to the end programmer.
Honestly I feel like the biggest things missing are not new libs/features, but improving what we already have!
For example:
in terms of 3rd party libs
in terms of docs guides
A Fable-like compiler that can compile Elixir code to multiple languages. Fable is amazing, been trying it lately targeting both JS and Python
