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As a shameless plug, there are a lot of interesting perks for a generalist to using Elixir. - Declarative + functional programming - Highly productive (great
by joeyrosztoczy1 8y ago
As a shameless plug, there are a lot of interesting perks for a generalist to using Elixir.
- Declarative + functional programming
- Highly productive (great frameworks for embedded + web, developer ergonomics, etc)
- Great exposure to Actor Model concurrency
- Great generic performance (no stop the world gc, strong multicore use via Erlang scheduler + processes, and lots of optimizations based on vm immutability)
- Lots and lots of exposure to systems stuff + strong devops tools (built for distribution*, Erlang runtime tools, observer, great logging and telemetry libraries, etc)
- Lots of built in services/tools (can use ETS instead of redis for things like auth-checking throughput)