Comment by cpursley
1 day ago
I'm one of those fanboys. I've done the react, angular etc front end thing. LiveView just absolutely smokes SPAs and other JS rats-nests in terms of productivity, performance and deployment simplicity (for certain types of apps). The fact that you don't have to write 6 layers of data layer abstraction alone is worth it.
And don't get me wrong, I even like things like Nuxt and have a few products on Astro (great framework btw). Agree regarding browser automation, not many options there so your gig is safe for now. But do play with LiveView, it's pretty special.
I'm going to agree with you that Elixir / Erlang is the most productive and will back it up with some data; elixir developers are the highest paid because they generate the most value. [0] Nonetheless, LiveView isn't a viable solution for a lot of what I do. Because of that, it is important to have developers who know and understand how to use JavaScript.
[0] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#4-top-paying...
Nevermind, folks - I retract my comments. Elixir is terrible, don't learn it, the market is saturated ;)