mervz

Truth

What if I rent physical server space at a colocation? Is that "self-hosted" by your definition? I'm curious where the imaginary line is drawn.

Yeah, I'm sure you "would".

Just use Elixir... it's a better language overall.

This is the dumbest post ever.

Streamlining the awful error handling would seriously make the developer experience SO much better... but this is Go, where developer experience comes dead last in priority.

Yikes...

So if an application uses a 3rd party provider for authentication (Google, Github, etc) is this no longer considered "self-hosted", despite it running on user's hardware?

I'm curious to know where you draw your imaginary line.

This is how Go works and there's really no issue... not sure what the gripe is here.

Very cool!

Elixir is one language I REALLY want to use as the solo developer working on internal infrastructure tools; but I'm very hesitant as I don't want to be cruel to the person who eventually replaces me and has to maintain these applications written in this seemingly (awesome) niche language.

Instead, I'm stuck writing applications in Go which is a language I absolutely despise but can't deny it's ability to get shit done regardless of the insane amount of boilerplate code I have to write.

Any predictions on whether Elixir will eventually gain more traction? The language and platform are rock solid and it's the best developer experience I've encountered. Phoenix is by far my favorite web framework and just feels very intuitive and complete. The lack of a good IDE is one huge pain point that I can't seem to overcome (I don't care how much people praise it, I know it's the best but VSCode is awful for Elixir development).

I just wish this language was more popular because it deserves to be!