I'm glad to dive in. On the client, fault tolerance is basically not a concern of mine. On the server, it's the most important concern. I find it more useful

I'm glad to dive in. On the client, fault tolerance is basically not a concern of mine. On the server, it's the most important concern. I find it more useful to think of Elixir as a highly concurrent language built for fault tolerance, where Functional Programming was a necessary requirement to get there. Jose has a great post on this here: http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2016/05/beyond-functional-programming-with-elixir-and-erlang/ http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2016/05/beyond-functional-p...