I'm a Rails developer so the transition was really smooth. I'm also very curious so I've tried a host of other languages in my time (Clojure, Haskell, Go, OcaML

I'm a Rails developer so the transition was really smooth. I'm also very curious so I've tried a host of other languages in my time (Clojure, Haskell, Go, OcaML) so it wasn't too difficult to pick up. One thing I love is that if something isn't written in Elixir, you can just call the underlying Erlang library and have access to essentially two languages at once. I also love how fast it is - things render extremely quickly even on a hobby dyno, which is impressive because that would never happen on a Rails side project. I also love the out-of-the-box ES6 support for JavaScript. Plus, I just really love writing in a functional programming style, so the language makes a lot of sense while retaining the ease of use when reading a language like Ruby or Python.