I'm currently working with Scala and recently dabbling with Elixir and Phoenix. It's a good language and great platform, however, I still prefer static typing.
I'm still getting used to dynamic typing in Elixir. Most of the time I feel like just matching against Map data structure or records.
While Dialyzer is great, writing the typespecs is a bit of a maintenance overhead. I suppose it's a tradeoff...
> I came to Elixir from Scala, [..] now I don't have to deal with the half of the Scala community that tries to make Scala into Haskell.
IMO Scala will continue to be a multi-paradigm lang. On pure-FP and libs, it's a choice and really depends on the problem domain. It might not be a good solution to everyone, but I'm glad it exists.
I'm still getting used to dynamic typing in Elixir. Most of the time I feel like just matching against Map data structure or records.
While Dialyzer is great, writing the typespecs is a bit of a maintenance overhead. I suppose it's a tradeoff...
> I came to Elixir from Scala, [..] now I don't have to deal with the half of the Scala community that tries to make Scala into Haskell.
IMO Scala will continue to be a multi-paradigm lang. On pure-FP and libs, it's a choice and really depends on the problem domain. It might not be a good solution to everyone, but I'm glad it exists.