alt Hacker NewsThis is a default pitch for a framework, which is at least as old as Ruby on Rails (an today it sounds more like a pitch for low-code platform than a framework). Is this framework's approach different from RoR/Django in any way, or it is just filling the vacuum in Elixir ecosystem?
Ash was definitely inspired by Rails but takes the seed of those ideas much further. So far that it starts feeling like a flexible and extensible domain modelling language and application configuration tool. It also happens to produce a working Elixir application using the best of the Elixir ecosystem.
It's funny that you say it sounds like low-code, because we've often said it's low-code tool but for software engineers. So when you inevitably hit the wall of a proprietary no-code/low-code platform, Ash can let you extend the framework or just solve the problem by writing functions as you like.
Once you appreciate the Ash way though, be warned! It's very hard to go back...
The gap it solves is having an opinionated, UI agnostic way of building your application layer. Phoenix has very limited opinions on how to write your application, and the team has stated that "Phoenix is NOT your application". Ash basically is your app, and Phoenix is the web frontend.
https://elixirforum.com/t/what-do-they-actually-mean-when-th...