Ask HN: Is Elixir Still Relevant?

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5 years ago

Few years ago, I was developing in Erlang and a bit in Elixir. That was very enjoyable, because the features of those languages (and especially the OTP framework) makes many things way easier.

I've been looking back at Elixir for a few weeks for one of my project, and I'm worried.

95% of the libraries I would need have not seen any commit since a few years. What's more frightening is that most libraries listed on awesome-elixir[1] seems to be unmaintained too. Almost like the Elixir community died 5 years ago (which I do not believe).

Is this normal? Would you trust a seemingly unmaintained library? If not, would you implement all of that work from scratch?

[1] - https://github.com/h4cc/awesome-elixir

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