Why I archived Burrow

In March I announced Burrow as my go-to framework for personal web projects. Now it's October and I have archived the project, built a media player with Elixir and Phoenix and released a library for this stack to handle passkeys.Why, you might ask? Or at least I've asked myself.A few months in I realised I had lost track of the actual projects I wanted to build. Basically I went all in on building a framework that a) includes all the things I ever wanted in a web application framework and b) replicates Phoenix LiveView. The first thing is an endless list in itself. But the second proved to be a massive task, and even more complicated if you can't rely on the wonderful features of the BEAM and Elixir. You can do it in Go with plain JavaScript or HTMX, but the server side has to implement a lot of things you get in Elixir for free.In July I checked my list of apps — a media player, a read-it-later service, an AI-powered email assistant, and so on. Everything was started. Nothing was…