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Comment by manytimesaway | Hacker News Reader

This is a really really bad comment. I've never heard of the framework you're talking about and I thought you were talking about the Firefox prototype.

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I don't have an opinion on the matter, but it's pretty popular. According to [1], Phoenix "was used extensively over the past year" by 2.4% of responders.

[1] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology

Phoenix is a well known web app framework regardless of your ignorance of it.

It's still a silly comment. The Phoenix web framework is a little over a decade old, and there are many other tech things named Phoenix that pre-date it, even just within the web application space. I assume Apache Phoenix and the web framework have a lot more to be annoyed at each other for.

I'm also pretty sure that there was an "Elixir" in IT before there was the language said framework is written in… I mean, given that the letter "X" is in both Unix and X11, I'm pretty sure most words containing it have already been used once or twice.

(I still think they should've stuck with "Firebird", little danger of confusing a browser with a database system mostly used by Delphi devs)

If you’re in software dev or frequent hn, how have you not heard of Phoenix? It is consistently voted as most loved web framework.

I’ve been on hn for almost 10 years, and have been doing mostly frontend development for the whole time. As far as I know I have never seen it mentioned. But then I have no interest in elixir, so I might just not have remembered the name even if I saw it.

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