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> the high performance mostly comes from the Elixir-based architecture, not from less bloat.

Well, Erlang architecture, but yeah. With Erlang you basically obviate the need for Redis, Eventmachine, Celluloid and that whole web socket handling stack because all of that is built in to Erlang/OTP.



Agreed totally in this instance. I was moreso responding to the overall "Rails is bloated" argument.




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