As someone who did Rails professionally for a very long time, Phoenix/Elixir is now my default stack.
Possibly the one thing that Rails still does better is generating quick throw away CRUD apps with their generators. Rails is still pretty much flawless in that regard. That beings said, when things mature and complexity grows Phoenix/Elixir is definitely the better all around tool.
I think LLM have really closed that gap. Quick throwaway stuff can be generated in a couple of minutes. But phoenix gives me back all the control in cases I care.
Yep I'm a moderate-to-strong LLM hater and this is one of like two things I use them for. Definitely a ground-leveler re: rails too it really had by far the best generators I had come across.
Possibly the one thing that Rails still does better is generating quick throw away CRUD apps with their generators. Rails is still pretty much flawless in that regard. That beings said, when things mature and complexity grows Phoenix/Elixir is definitely the better all around tool.