I was a nodejs programmer for almost 8 years before I hopped to elixir. A lot of it was motivated btw elixir's realtime system and concurrency. One of the issu

I was a nodejs programmer for almost 8 years before I hopped to elixir. A lot of it was motivated btw elixir's realtime system and concurrency. One of the issues with nodejs is that you're stuck to one process which is single threaded. IE: you're stuck to one core. Yes there are systems like clustering which relies on a master process spawning slave processes and communicating over a bridge but in my experience, its pretty janky. You're making a great move by trying out elixir. It solves a lot of the issues I ran into working with nodejs. Immutability is standard and if you compare two maps, it automatically does a deep evaluation of all the values in each tree. The killer feature however is liveview. Its what meteor WISHES it could be. realtime server push of html to the dom and teh ability to have the frontend trigger events on the backend in a process thats isolated to that specific user. Its a game changer. Anyways, if you're looking for resources to learn. pragprog has a bunch of great books on elixir. Thats how I got started.