I've been doing programming for a while now (mostly in Ruby of late, but prior to that, lots of stuff) and the more I play with Elixir, the more I want to work in it. I'm actually going to ElixirConf (which is next weekend in Austin).
They seem to have done a lot of things right, and addressed pretty much every single criticism I had of Ruby.
> I'm very seriously considering Elixir/Phoenix for my next startup
It will be a risk, but I say go for it. Others (who have probably NOT had any Elixir experience!!) will tell you your startup is already enough risk, but here's the thing- Elixir could end up being the key differentiator technology for you. Who else provides NO DOWNTIME code upgrades, and that incredible request responsiveness as well as reliability? Immutable data? Extreme concurrency? The "Actor model" that everyone is enamored with these days? The awesome community? Nobody, I think.
They seem to have done a lot of things right, and addressed pretty much every single criticism I had of Ruby.
> I'm very seriously considering Elixir/Phoenix for my next startup
It will be a risk, but I say go for it. Others (who have probably NOT had any Elixir experience!!) will tell you your startup is already enough risk, but here's the thing- Elixir could end up being the key differentiator technology for you. Who else provides NO DOWNTIME code upgrades, and that incredible request responsiveness as well as reliability? Immutable data? Extreme concurrency? The "Actor model" that everyone is enamored with these days? The awesome community? Nobody, I think.