That is exactly what's so exciting about Elixir to me. It's homiconic, like LISP, so being able to execute code at compile time can have a game-changing impact

That is exactly what's so exciting about Elixir to me. It's homiconic, like LISP, so being able to execute code at compile time can have a game-changing impact on reducing boilerplate. And in addiction to that, it's functional, so I can get the awesome benefits of immutable programming, but without the dizzying complexity of, for example, Scala's type system. And it's based on the Erlang VM, so I get the benefits of battle-hardened concurrency and IO underpinnings. Previously I stayed away from things like Go and Node/Express, because I felt like it wasn't as easy for the type of work I do as Django, and was missing key things like the admin interface. But when I looked at what's in the Phoenix framework[1] and read the source, it started to feel like I'm witnessing the dawn of the next Ruby on Rails revolution. http://www.phoenixframework.org/ http://www.phoenixframework.org/