The Ultimate Showdown: Rails 8 vs Phoenix LiveView

If you are a Ruby on Rails developer, you have definitely heard about Elixir and the Phoenix framework. It is almost impossible to ignore. The creator of Elixir, José Valim, was a core contributor to Rails. He built Elixir because he loved Ruby's beautiful syntax, but he wanted to fix Ruby's biggest problem: handling high concurrency and real-time features. Very often I see developers asking if Phoenix is the "new Rails" and if they should abandon Ruby to learn it. Here is my honest breakdown