Ecto
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
5recommend
0warn against
Nov 6, 2025first mention
Sep 2, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“i use elixir/ecto. just write a migration!”
“as little magic as possible”
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“it has a pretty good query building type solution”
Uses Elixir at day jobon “Java Is Fast. Your Code Might Not Be”
“"ecto" that handles all of this for you”
“check out ecto, i would say it has less magic than django”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“shipped patches to Ecto, Phoenix LiveView, PostGraphile, and PowerSync”
Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026) 1 mention
- Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer? 1 mention
- Some more things about Django I've been enjoying 1 mention
- What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) 1 mention
- Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed language 1 mention
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026) 1 mention
Data: ecto.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 11
“onto Elixir, Phoenix and Ecto”
“I use the Ecto connection pool when using Elixir/Phoenix.”
“i use elixir/ecto. just write a migration!”
“as little magic as possible”
“Ecto Changesets[0] are runtime constructs, yes.”
“Technologies: Elixir, Phoenix, LiveView, Ecto”
“it has a pretty good query building type solution”
“"ecto" that handles all of this for you”
“check out ecto, i would say it has less magic than django”
“I've never once run into the ecto issues mentioned.”
“Erlang/Elixir abstracts most db use-cases with ecto”