I'm currently learning Elixir and I'm loving it. I'm in that got 30% of my app written in it place. I may or may not regret using it in the big picture (librar

I'm currently learning Elixir and I'm loving it. I'm in that got 30% of my app written in it place. I may or may not regret using it in the big picture (libraries, esoteric ness, performance, a 5th language/platform in our soup of tech we use to solve our problem, etc, and who knows) eventually; it's too early for me to tell. But I wont regret learning Elixir. There's a certain zen in the "ah so you're a programmer, eh? But can you do it without any references/pointers or for loops, huh?" This from a guy who spent 20 solid years as an "objects all the way down" smalltalker, and does a lot of multi paradigm hybrid Python/Kotlin/Swift these days with a bunch of C as well. What I really noticed last week when I did a day of Python after a week of Elixir is how much time I spend in other languages writing branch logic code. Code where you decide what direction your code should go next. Should it do this or that now. Or if it should optionally do that. I'm writing an order of magnitude less of that code (it moves to a more orthogonal place in multi function matching) in Elixir. It's stretching me and I'm learning new ways of seeing things that ultimately make me a better programmer; the slack channel has been really nice. I tried Haskell to try and get the taste for pure functional a year ago; it did not go anywhere near as well as this.