u/mandebrio

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How the heck to learn Ash Framework?

There was a thread a couple of days ago about how great Ash is for agentic coding. Totally agree. But damnit I just can't seem to really grok Ash. I've read the first 3/4 or so of Le's book, also got Lambert's "Ash Framework for Phoenix Developers" but its kind of unfinished, mostly just a lot of code.

The Le book is great for getting excited about Ash, seeing its value, but it doesn't really explain the underlying logic of it all. You just see what a person already fluent in Ash builds as a demonstration, and light explanation what's going on, but you don't learn how to reason about this whole space of possibilities so you can build things yourself.

I'm certain that its all very well designed, that there are clear functional data structure underneath things, sometimes I think I kind of get "changes" as a kind of data structure.

Any advice?

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u/mandebrio — 2 days ago