No. I'd say even if you don't end up using it in your day to day, learning elixir/Erlang and reading Armstrong's thesis are some of the best things you can do f

No. I'd say even if you don't end up using it in your day to day, learning elixir/Erlang and reading Armstrong's thesis are some of the best things you can do for yourself in terms of "system design/programming enlightenment".