I recently gave a talk, at the local Fullstack Meetup, on the Phoenix Framework. Phoenix is the de facto web framework for Elixir. In this talk, I cover some of the best features of Phoenix: Erlang: The platmor which Elixir and Phoenix are build on. (albeit very brief overview of the major features) Plug: The specification for composable module design that gives Phoenix much of it’s power. Ecto: The database integration layer.

Haskell is notoriously difficult to setup, which probably led to many people being scared away from ever getting started. However, there has been a lot of work done to address these short comings. And there is a way to setup a very pleasant environment thanks to the hard work of many projects. Traditional methods included: Installing The Haskell Platform, which was a great project in it’s time but always seems to lag a few GHC versions behind.