Elixir is decent and I've worked with it a fair amount in production systems... Mostly Rubyists seem to really click with it. And ruby idioms are all over it - you can taste its history and proximity to ruby's ecosystem.
As a scala dev that ended up working with elixir for a couple years, my opinion is that a typesafe elixir-like language would really bring BEAM back into the mainstream. Akka is alright but it's shoehorned onto the JVM. BEAM is good as long as you don't need to do heavy computation, but lack of type-safety (need to use dialyzer?) means that shit breaks in prod that the compiler would have caught. And yes, you can mitigate this with boatloads of testing and data-validations with ecto or whatever. But every time we broke shit that a compiler would have caught I cringed.
It's a great path for rubyists to move to Elixir/BEAM and every rubyist should give it a whirl! I'm back working on scala and akka.
It's a great path for rubyists to move to Elixir/BEAM and every rubyist should give it a whirl! I'm back working on scala and akka.