Phoenix is a web framework that sits on top of the Elixir programming language, much in the same way that Rails sits atop Ruby or Express sits atop Node and JavaScript. There are a few areas where Phoenix shares a lot of the same core ideas and beliefs of other frameworks and areas where Phoenix differs pretty heavily.
Phoenix is very much designed to be a standard Elixir application and thus abides by the same rules and the same principles, but also encompasses all of the same things that make Elixir so great to work with! In my mind, the first and biggest thing that Phoenix gets via Elixir is first-class and dead-simple concurrency support. Writing code that performs and scales well on multiple core machines (that ...
