I’m sure Phoenix is great, but in real-world experience, my former startup tried to use it, found the ecosystem and tooling extremely lacking, encountered severe problems with the learning curve, and pivoted to Rails.
Strange. I've dropped into several different startups and gotten people up to speed in days if they were experienced devs. One case was more painful, but much of that was due to engineering being outsourced to a team of contractors and management being from a non-tech industry.
Usually the hardest thing for devs I've seen learning Elixir is just getting used to immutability. What were the severe problems with the learning curve your former startup encountered?
