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Phoenix and Elixir are trucking along nicely. Elixir 1.3 is on release candidate, as is Ecto 2.0 and Phoenix 1.2.

The big feature of Phoenix 1.2 is channel presence: https://dockyard.com/blog/2016/03/25/what-makes-phoenix-pres...

Whats coming in elixir 1.3: http://tuvistavie.com/2016/elixir-1-3/

Ecto 2.0: http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2016/02/ecto-2-0-0-beta-0-i...

Other than that the community is growing at a healthy pace. Hex packages have gone from 1000 to over 2000 in the last 6 months.

The problem with hex.pm is that it doesn't distinguish Elixir and Erlang packages so the total is a mixture of both which is not very useful.

Why is it not useful? You can drop erlang packages straight into Elixir projects without any issue.

I meant not useful in terms of gauging the output of the Elixir community.

That should make no difference at all. Having Erlang packages alongside Elixir ones, incorporating them seamlessly into mix, is a massive plus.

I like how phoenix is evolving but is it really ready for production?

Yep. Companies worth hundreds of millions have been relying on Phoenix for well over a year now. Also Phoenix has been 1.0 since August last year.

Absolutely, Bleacher Report and I believe Pintrest are both using it in production.

Here is a full list of companies using elixir: https://github.com/doomspork/elixir-companies

As an employee of Bleacher Report - yup, we use it a LOT. Everyone loves it.

It's most useful for our services (our consumer facing app is Rails atm) but it's great.

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