| > You end up with significantly less lines of code that's easy to understand. That is very interesting claim, but there is something more than just tooling and number of lines of codes - a paradigm. Elixir is a functional [1] but Go is imperative [2] programming language. It changes a point in discussion quite a lot, especially when you say 'code is easy to understand'. Personally I prefer Elm over JavaScript/React, because it is 'easier and simplier', but I remember a situation in college when after C#-course we had introduced Prolog and F# and many of newbies found functional programming very difficult... But maybe it is matter of taste. > Everything about the language and the surrounding tooling is polished. I don't have strong Elixir experience, but playing with Phoenix framework made me really happy to see how many packages are well documented to create backend for web application. But is almost perfect, almost - because it is not Go. Go is way more performant (Elixir have results comparable to Python or PHP[3]), has great virtual file system [4], auto generating docs (godoc), gofmt, gorename, golint, gocode (no matter which editor you use - VSCode, SublimeText, Vim you have great autocompletion) and a lot of other things (i.e. examples) which makes learning Go easy for newcomers (i.e. devs who are bored of PHP). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperative_programming [3]: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r12&hw=... [4]: https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/godoc/vfs |
1. https://github.com/mroth/phoenix-showdown/blob/master/RESULT...
2. https://gist.github.com/omnibs/e5e72b31e6bd25caf39a
3. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/phoenix-talk/hljH55fsqqw/eFX...