these two vids are pretty great, obviously they favor FP/elixir, but great advise from two expert people. Elixir Should Take Over the World by Jessica Kerr: ht

these two vids are pretty great, obviously they favor FP/elixir, but great advise from two expert people. Elixir Should Take Over the World by Jessica Kerr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X25xOhntr6s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X25xOhntr6s What every Node.js developer needs to know about Elixir - Bryan Hunter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8wueg2hswA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8wueg2hswA FP and the Erlang VM gives you a great deal of advantages, which you should be aware of. Ultimately I would also look into node.js, since it's so popular it's becoming a reference, and jobs for javascript/node are easy to get.