Elixir Makes You Make Good Decisions
Elixir and the Phoenix framework were chosen to build screen.garden, a backend for Obsidian that enables sync and multiplayer collaboration. The author praises Elixir for fostering good architectural decisions, reliable dependencies, and ease of feature development. Examples include using the let_me authorization library and leveraging AWS with Broadway for file sync. The post also highlights the pleasurable experience of writing tests in Elixir and compares solving programming problems in Elixir to finding hidden items in video games.