Well, I have been "programming FP-heavy" for about ten years, and before that, I used ruby/python, (though admittedly not professionally). I did help maintain

Well, I have been "programming FP-heavy" for about ten years, and before that, I used ruby/python, (though admittedly not professionally). I did help maintain an absolutely godawful yet bog-standard django site for a short spell as a professional. The reason why elixir is fantastic is in such a ball of mud codebase, you can truly work in one corner of the codebase and not worry about anything else being disrupted. Testing story is also great. You can very simply do things you can't in other languages so easily, like concurrent tests that hit the database.