If you were choosing today, would you recommend choosing Elixir over Go for web/back-end development? Would you say Go is more suited for high-performance command-line tools, and Elixir for long-term running stuff?
I'm an indie developer building such a back-end (social networking/chat space), have full choice of language. Started using Go earlier this year and mostly happy with it.
Should I switch to Elixir in my next iteration? Would it make me more productive, or save me from various deployment hurdles in long-term?
(Please don't take this as one of those mostly aimless "Hey, is Ruby or Python better?" type of questions. I hate those myself. I'm going to be investing thousands of hours into Go at this point. Hoping for some serious pro-vs-con discussion, hoping people who have architected something big in either language could chime in -- such is the major plus of asking on HN.)
I tried Googling, and the best/most recent I found was this thread. [1]
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/3c8yfz/how_does_go_...
I'm an indie developer building such a back-end (social networking/chat space), have full choice of language. Started using Go earlier this year and mostly happy with it.
Should I switch to Elixir in my next iteration? Would it make me more productive, or save me from various deployment hurdles in long-term?
(Please don't take this as one of those mostly aimless "Hey, is Ruby or Python better?" type of questions. I hate those myself. I'm going to be investing thousands of hours into Go at this point. Hoping for some serious pro-vs-con discussion, hoping people who have architected something big in either language could chime in -- such is the major plus of asking on HN.)
I tried Googling, and the best/most recent I found was this thread. [1]
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/3c8yfz/how_does_go_...