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Great talk OP, phoenix will probably become my go to alternative to my current hybrid rails+nodejs stack as I learn more about Elixir. But because Elixir (and Phoenix) is still rapidly changing, I find tons of stuff I've written even several months ago just sort of stops working if I don't upkeep it frequently. This is just the nature of using new things, but do you have a recommend elixir version manager you use?

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I just build from source as needed, and I find it refreshingly simple. This will probably break down on future Elixir versions, but for now it's my preferred approach. There are libs for switching elixir/erl versions, fwiw.

wrt fast changeds, Elixir has been 1.0 stable for 7 months, and Phoenix is targeting a July 1.0 release. We are quite close to 1.0 as it is, so things should be much smoother now if you checked us out several months ago.

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