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littlelines.com
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littlelines.com is the company blog at littlelines.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2012, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 36 times, most often “Elixir vs. Ruby Showdown – Phoenix vs. Rails”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Little Lines posts comparing Elixir and Phoenix with Ruby and Rails on throughput and memory use, plus posts on why to switch to Elixir. Commenters cite these benchmarks as support for their points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Elixir vs. Ruby Showdown – Phoenix vs. Rails8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2014-07-08
- Build a Video Chat App in Phoenix LiveView2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-01
- /blog/2014/07/08/elixir-vs-ruby-showdown-phoenix-vs-rails2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-09
What Hacker News says?
Littlelines | REMOTE (USA) | https://littlelines.com Littlelines is hiring an experienced and passionate Ruby on Rails engineer to join its team. We are a small team, so the ideal team member would be comfortable taking on various tasks and seeing them to completion. Our main stack is Ruby, Rails, Elixir, Phoenix, and Vue.js, but this candidate should love learning and trying new technology. You’re experienced and p…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)”Submitted Why Rubyist Will Love Swift as a story · 36 points
HN discussionLittlelines | Dayton, Ohio (USA) | https://littlelines.com Littlelines is hiring an experienced and passionate Ruby on Rails engineer to join its team. We are a small team, so the ideal team member would be comfortable taking on various tasks and seeing them to completion. Our main stack is Ruby, Rails, Elixir, Phoenix, and Vue.js, but this candidate should love learning and trying new technology. You’re experienced…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)”Submitted Elixir vs. Ruby Showdown – Part One as a story · 20 points
HN discussionLittlelines | REMOTE | https://littlelines.com Littlelines is looking for HTML/CSS, Ruby on Rails developers, and project managers. We're a talented team of designers and engineers that love building beautiful software for our clients. We're a (intentionally) small company so your contributions will be signficant and you'll have the opportunity to learn, hone your skills, and contribute valuable work to a variety of…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)”Submitted Elixir vs. Ruby Showdown – Phoenix vs. Rails as a story · 14 points
HN discussionLittlelines | REMOTE | https://littlelines.com Littlelines is looking for Front-end (<3 Vue,js), Ruby on Rails, and Elixir team members. We're a talented team of designers and engineers that love building beautiful software. We're a (intentionally) small company so your contributions will be signficant and you'll have the opportunity to learn, hone your skills, and contribute valuable work to a variety of different…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)”Submitted Build a Video Chat App in Phoenix LiveView as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI have been using Erlang since 2008, and started using Elixir in 2014. I much prefer the Elixir syntax. It files off the rough parts of the Erlang syntax, e.g. needing to keep track of commas, periods and semicolons at the ends of lines. The most important thing Elixir adds, though, is lisp-style macros, which makes everything else easier. This is the post which made me switch to Elixir: https://littlelines.com/blog…
Comment linking /blog/2014/07/08/elixir-vs-ruby-showdown-phoenix-vs-rails
on “Elixir 1.11”Submitted Using Phoenix with Legacy Rails Applications as a story · 7 points
HN discussionLittlelines (DAYTON, OH) http://littlelines.com Things are getting even bigger and better for us, so we’re looking for talented and passionate developers to join the team (at our headquarters) and support the continued growth of Littlelines. - Ruby Developer - Ruby is our bread and butter. Littlelines is hiring experienced Ruby on Rails developers to work on-site at our Dayton headquarters. - Front-end Developer - H…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)”Submitted How to Send Email from Your Phoenix App in Under 5 Minutes as a story · 6 points
HN discussionDayton, Ohio | Littlelines ( http://littlelines.com ) Littlelines is looking for Front-end and Ruby on Rails developers to work with us in our spanking new headquarters or possibly remote. We're a small and talented team of designers and developers that love making clients happy. You'll have the opportunity to learn, hone your skills, and contribute valuable work to real projects. We work exclusively on Rails web ap…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2014)”Submitted Elixir vs. Ruby Showdown – Phoenix vs. Rails as a story · 6 points
HN discussionLittlelines (Dayton, OH) - Full time, local. We're looking for rails and front-end developers to work with us in our new headquarters. We're a small and talented team of designers and developers that love making clients happy. You'll have the opportunity to learn, hone your skills, and contribute valuable work to real projects. We work exclusively on Rails web applications, so some familiarity with Rails views and h…
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on “Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)”Submitted A Survival Guide for Legacy Rails Apps as a story · 5 points
HN discussionLittlelines ( http://littlelines.com ) is looking for front-end and Ruby/Rails developers to work with us in our spanking new headquarters in Ohio. You'll have the opportunity to learn, hone your skills, and contribute valuable work to real projects. We work exclusively on Rails web applications, so some familiarity with Rails views and how a Rails project is set up is a plus. Ideal candidates will be able to work w…
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on “Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)”Submitted A Guide for Writing Maintainable Rails Tests as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIn case you are wonder why the excitement about Exilir ... Exilir allows you to easily create DSL in Erlang. Phoenix is a great example that has used Exilir to create a DSL that is similar to Ruby on Rails. http://www.littlelines.com/blog/2014/07/08/elixir-vs-ruby-sh...
Comment linking /blog/2014/07/08/elixir-vs-ruby-showdown-phoenix-vs-rails/
on “Elixir Release v1.0.0”Submitted ExUnit Quick Reference as a story · 4 points
HN discussion1GB is an obscene amount of ram for a webapp, it's just that Ruby is a memory hog. You can run an Elixir webapp with much much less memory. See: http://www.littlelines.com/blog/2014/07/08/elixir-vs-ruby-sh... tl:dr; Ruby/Rails: 235.37MB Elixir/Phoenix: 34.69MB
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on “How I spent two weeks hunting a memory leak in Ruby (2015)”Submitted Elixir vs. Ruby as a story · 4 points
HN discussionElixir has a very regular syntax, so you get Erlang plus the power of lisp-style macros, which is HUGE. It also adds features like Clojure-style protocols. And then with pattern matching, we get to dispatch on all the function call arguments, like CLOS. So basically, it's got much of the power of Lisp, in a mainstream syntax. I love it. With those syntax improvements, we get the power of Erlang with the ease of use…
Comment linking /blog/2014/07/08/elixir-vs-ruby-showdown-phoenix-vs-rails/
on “What Sucks About Erlang (2008)”Submitted How To Use AngularJS and Keep Loving Rails as a story · 4 points
HN discussionExcept Phoenix and Elixir are just faster out of the gate than Rails and Ruby! "tl;dr Phoenix showed 10.63x more throughput over Rails when performing the same task, with a fraction of CPU load" https://littlelines.com/blog/2014/07/08/elixir-vs-ruby-showd... You can tack on a Phoenix app on top of a Rails app's database and immediately get big improvements as Rails can be a bottleneck.
Comment linking /blog/2014/07/08/elixir-vs-ruby-showdown-phoenix-vs-rails
on “How Elixir helped Bleacher Report handle 8x more traffic”Submitted Build a video chat app in Phoenix LiveView as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGranted this is speculation, but I've done my homework: 1) Extreme concurrency due to Erlang underneath, which means not only being able to handle lots of connections at once, but very good DDoS resistance. See WhatsApp's blog post about it: http://blog.whatsapp.com/196/1-million-is-so-2011 An Elixir (or Erlang) process can fire up a million new nodes in a second on commodity hardware. No joke. The out-of-the-box co…
Comment linking /blog/2014/07/08/elixir-vs-ruby-showdown-phoenix-vs-rails/
on “Ask HN: Which language to learn for long-term work”Submitted Serving Your App with HTTP/2 in Phoenix 1.4 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI checked out your website. You can try using a Bootstrap theme for your website. Check these sites out: http://www.littlelines.com/ http://symondsandson.com/
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on “Ask HN: Growing a career in freelance web development/design”Submitted Fun with Variants and Enums in Rails 4.1 as a story · 3 points
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