> I've tried to get other people to get involved with Elixir but most people don't understand Functional Programming I really don't get this. Elixir is barely

> I've tried to get other people to get involved with Elixir but most people don't understand Functional Programming I really don't get this. Elixir is barely FP—just immutability and first class functions. Is it really that hard for a lot of people? It's not Haskell or Clojure (""weird"" syntax). I'd argue the hard part of Elixir is OTP and taking advantage of distributed computing. > haven't encountered the problems Rails/Ruby or say Python has. This is a good reason, honestly. If Ruby is fine, why change? It'll just make learning a new paradigm and OTP less fun because there's no need to learn it.