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Haha I genuinely couldn't tell. I liked it which made me think that it was actually created by a human but had me a bit concerned that my detector is losing calibration.

Hologram v0.5.0 12 months ago

Hologram looks really good. Excited to build offline-capable fullstack Elixir apps with it.

Generally I find static typing to be overrated, even more so with elixir due to pattern matching and immutability. I think elixir’s set-theoretic types will be a nice addition and will provide some compile-time safety checks without needing to explicitly define types for everything. It remains to be seen how far they’ll take this approach.

Yeah it’d be nice if they had a mix task to include your js frontend of choice and it “just worked”. Many have used inertia with success. I’m taking a different approach and pairing svelte with Phoenix channels.

I agree with you but as a thought exercise: does it matter if there is a lot of boilerplate if ultimately the code works and is performant enough?

Fwiw, most of the time I like writing code and I don't enjoy wading through LLM-generated code to see if it got it right. So the idea of using LLMs as reviewers resonates. I don't like writing tests though so I would happily have it write all of those.

But I do wonder if eventually it won't make sense to ever write code and it will turn into a pastime.

Recommend Meteor + Svelte. It checks all your boxes. I haven’t spent time with Flutter though. Feel free to DM me if you have any questions.