Late to the game but wanted to add a reply to this. I chose Elixir for a side-project about 2 years ago now, and switched to Elixir full time 6 months ago. Abso

Late to the game but wanted to add a reply to this. I chose Elixir for a side-project about 2 years ago now, and switched to Elixir full time 6 months ago. Absolutely no regrets. It definetely took a while to learn how to write decent Elixir code, but I think that's true of any language. My side project was my first Elixir project and it's gone through some serious iterations as I've learned various early things I did aren't ideal. Now I'm using it professionally and I'm so glad I am, it's wonderful to work with when you've got some experience in it and feel comfortable with it. Some of the things that tripped me over early were: * Deep case statements when pattern matching functions would have been clearer. * Not using type specs. * String vs Atom keyed maps, I thought I needed to have a consistent approach but later realised they're both useful in different circumstances. * Over-use of exceptions (throw/raise). In the end I realised you generally don't want to use these except in really specific cirumstances. One such example is when you want to totally fail and exit a deep stack which would otherwise require loads of case statements to bubble up an error. But usually staying away from these is the right call. * Multiple forms of functions (ones which raise and ones which don't). While having both is useful in libraries, the rule of thumb really is to stick to the one which doesn't raise and handle the potential issues (ie: nil being returned). Only use the one which raises when you need to kill whatever you're doing. In general I don't write both forms of functions for my own code though. Once I got past those and other teething issues it's been wonderful. Even language version upgrades have been pretty easy and that's often a pain in other languages. Now that the languages is "mostly complete" we don't see much in the way of breaking changes which is great, the rare deprecation perhaps but usually you can just upgrade without much of a thought and reap the performance benefits. For context, I was using C#/.Net professionally before and TS/JS (node) for side projects before picking up Elixir.