Ash
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Dec 14, 2025first mention
Jul 4, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I also like using Ash for data modeling and business logic expression.”
“this is great. The environment variable control is particularly interesting to me.”
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“ash isn't just an FFI wrapper”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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From the makers not counted in the ranking
“Your feedback about permissions is something I'm working on fixing now.”
“I've added process-specific network access to the roadmap”
Threads where it came up
- Show HN: Ash, an Agent Sandbox for Mac 5 mentions
- Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu 2 mentions
- Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2026) 1 mention
- Phoenix LiveView 1.2 Released 1 mention
- Labor Market Impacts of AI 1 mention
- Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) 1 mention
Also written as ash. Data: ash.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“Elixir, Phoenix, Ash”
“I also like using Ash for data modeling and business logic expression.”
“this is great. The environment variable control is particularly interesting to me.”
“Is this any different from /sandbox command?”
“I used Instructor and Ash framework with Phoenix”
“ash isn't just an FFI wrapper”
“which itself depends on Ash for Vulkan FFI”
“Built with Elixir/Phoenix/Ash and LiveView.”