I write elixir full-time at a fintech startup and I can confidently say that this blog is clearly written by someone with significant experience. With statemen

I write elixir full-time at a fintech startup and I can confidently say that this blog is clearly written by someone with significant experience. With statements are key to nailing a balance of error handling and pattern matching, however for trivial functional flows (that don't require error handling), pipes are entirely fine. The biggest challenges for elixir currently are the lack of established HTTP libs with dynamic testing and db ORMs. For instance, interacting with PSQL is fine using ecto, but using a document based DB or something like Neo4J is an absolute headache. Deployment is also pretty easy, but that's a whole different side of development.