I've been programming my web projects exclusively in Elixir for the last few years and I've been deeply enjoying the language.
Although at first, some unfamiliar design decisions annoyed me, for they were not well explained in the tutorials I was learning the language from – e.g `arg: value` as a shortcut for `[{:arg, value}]` in function arguments and other places – over time, I've grown to love and appreciate the language and I now more or less regard it as an elegant programming language put together by a thoughtful person with great programming taste.
The Phoenix framework is a great bonus point if you want increased productivity for writing web apps. I don't miss Python at all.
Elixir rests on the shoulders of giants though, and the Erlang/OTP is yet another elegantly engineered piece of technology, enabling one to develop concurrent, distributed and fault tolerant systems with ease, and in this regard I think the Erlang/Elixir ecosystem takes the crown. The actor model is simple, yet very powerful.
For reference, I've also been learning Nim and F#, and they're also pretty unique and well designed languages in their own ways. I love Nim's fast compilation times, efficiency and expressiveness and F#'s powerful type system which enables one to develop domain models with ease. I've also been occasionally taking stabs at Rust, but it always feels just a tad too complex for my brain. I'll continue playing with it though, maybe it will eventually make sense.
Ultimately, every design decision is also a tradeoff. I don't think we'll ever have a perfect, human designed language.
My dream language would probably be a combination of Elixir and F# though, a language with an advanced and powerful type system, functional programming and the actor model as the building blocks. I guess fast compilation times à la Nim wouldn’t hurt either. :)
Although at first, some unfamiliar design decisions annoyed me, for they were not well explained in the tutorials I was learning the language from – e.g `arg: value` as a shortcut for `[{:arg, value}]` in function arguments and other places – over time, I've grown to love and appreciate the language and I now more or less regard it as an elegant programming language put together by a thoughtful person with great programming taste.
The Phoenix framework is a great bonus point if you want increased productivity for writing web apps. I don't miss Python at all.
Elixir rests on the shoulders of giants though, and the Erlang/OTP is yet another elegantly engineered piece of technology, enabling one to develop concurrent, distributed and fault tolerant systems with ease, and in this regard I think the Erlang/Elixir ecosystem takes the crown. The actor model is simple, yet very powerful.
For reference, I've also been learning Nim and F#, and they're also pretty unique and well designed languages in their own ways. I love Nim's fast compilation times, efficiency and expressiveness and F#'s powerful type system which enables one to develop domain models with ease. I've also been occasionally taking stabs at Rust, but it always feels just a tad too complex for my brain. I'll continue playing with it though, maybe it will eventually make sense.
Ultimately, every design decision is also a tradeoff. I don't think we'll ever have a perfect, human designed language.
My dream language would probably be a combination of Elixir and F# though, a language with an advanced and powerful type system, functional programming and the actor model as the building blocks. I guess fast compilation times à la Nim wouldn’t hurt either. :)