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There seems to be an underlying assumption that the best language for an agentic web is JavaScript. Chris McCord, an Elixir developer, begs to differ.
McCord is the creator of the Elixir-based Phoenix web framework and spoke at September’s ElixirConf US 2025, which was recently released on YouTube. To prove his point, he started his talk by spinning up an AI agent to create a Slack clone using Phoenix and an Agents.md in the project.
“Agents.md is just a flat markdown file and this isn’t documentation,” he said. “Agents.md is for…
