[20yrs_no_equity]

Having a lot of experience in Elixir and Go I will say that the advantage of Elixir is not excitement, but that you can reason about your code and expect it to work. For years. Half assed go programs will crash. Half assed elixir programs can run for decades without maintenance.

Elixir is way easier to understand than Go. If you will put one week into learning it, you'll be a lot further than you are with go.

I have a couple decades of professional experience, if you are building a serious system, you want Elixir. IF you are building a devops tool, where a single binary with no install process is what's important, you want go.

But given all the containerization and distributed programming people are doing these days using go for that kinda shows to me that most engineering is done by people who don't understand distributed systems.