I've coded in Python and Go (which has compile time type safety and does inference to avoid verbosity) code professionally, and am loving Elixir. I build distributed systems and I while I love Python, I don't think it is the right language for that. Frankly, I prefer nodeJS's single thread to Python's GIL because you are under no illusions wrt concurrency. Go is better but I don't understand why channel communication across machines doesn't exist (I think it was there as an experimental feature early on but maybe I am mistaken). I'm very impressed by the capabilities of the Beam VM and hope that Elixir will let me build better distributed systems (despite the lack of type safety).
I'm trying to convince people at work to use Elixir but people seem to have language fatigue. The lack of a major company/product using Elixir is making me worried as well. But hey .. someone had to be first, right? :)
> The lack of a major company/product using Elixir is making me worried as well.
There are plenty of people using Erlang. That's good enough, IMO.
If there were ever a show-stopping problem with the Elixir compiler that couldn't (or wouldn't) be fixed, you could just write whatever functionality you needed in Erlang (Which decades of prior art exist for).
I'm trying to convince people at work to use Elixir but people seem to have language fatigue. The lack of a major company/product using Elixir is making me worried as well. But hey .. someone had to be first, right? :)