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I made a few hobby projects in different Lisps, but in the end for my field (REST backends) I would chose Erlang and today I also started looking towards Kotlin

I made a few hobby projects in different Lisps, but in the end for my field (REST backends) I would chose Erlang and today I also started looking towards Kotlin. Lisp's macros while being powerful are still creating a lot of trouble in terms of understanding the system, working with other people and finding support online. Also I personally didn't meet many developers who have solid understanding of FP, not even talking about macros - they are simply too complicated and don't allow human scaling.

fastball 6y ago
Why Kotlin and not Elixir + Pheonix for web backend?
- nurettin 6y ago
  kotlin makes spring boot much more usable
- mapcars 6y ago
  I have some experience with Elixir, you can think of it as nicer Erlang. Kotlin is interesting because it gives you access to Java (Android & Desktop) world and is closer to functional languages while still being widely usable.