Next.js is still missing lots of backend stuff. Background jobs, cron jobs, queues, etc.

BEAM / Erlang / OTP / Elixir feels different:

- no JS (well a tiny bit ships with Phoenix but I never have to look at it), no NPM, nothing that breaks every week

- the whole system lends itself to executing on multiple cores

- GenServers BEAM processes in general are amazing

> You don't need Laravel if you use Next

But you do need to solve a lot of stuff that Laravel already solves for you.

that’s true, next.js does a great job offering a full stack experience. the difference with phoenix is that it’s built on the beam, which gives you concurrency, fault tolerance, and real-time capabilities out of the box. liveview also lets you build interactive frontends without managing separate api layers or client frameworks, keeping everything unified and fast.