I'm one of those raving fans you talk about. I always love sharing the success stories of Elixir with everyone because it deserves so much more love than it cur

I'm one of those raving fans you talk about. I always love sharing the success stories of Elixir with everyone because it deserves so much more love than it currently receives. I came from a Rails background too and Elixir is so much better than even Ruby (which I'm a huge fan of already) simply because it forces you to think in terms of functions rather than OOP based. Most people who try and give up early on Elixir - including myself (I gave up initially after a few weeks actually, before going back to it again) was simply because I was trying to code things like I would normally do in an OOP setting. For example, you don't use FOR loops in Elixir, you don't nest switch cases. If you try to be in an OOP mindset with this language, you WILL fail. And that's a good thing. The language constantly challenges you to rethink a lot about your code. And it always results in better code when you do it functionally. Eg. using pattern matching instead of multiple if else clauses. The downside of Elixir is the ecosystem isn't as mature as Ruby, so, for some of the things you're trying to accomplish, you won't find ready made libraries, or they won't be maintained anymore. Sometimes, you will be forced to write something from scratch and that can cost valuable developer time. Integration of stuff like GraphQL can be too verbose compared to other programming environments as well. But, the language itself? It's hard to complain. My entire consulting career has been built around Elixir since I made the switch ~3+ years ago. That's how good it is.