[pmarreck]

Go to Crystal if you just want to go faster.

Go to Elixir if you actually want to learn more, expand your mind, and are tired of bugs that can only occur in a mutable OOP language. And if you want to take advantage of the extra guarantees provided by a functional language, such as functional immutable datastructures making concurrency idiotproof.

[eropple]

There isn't much that is "mind-expanding" about Elixir coming from Ruby or really any other interesting, dynamically-typed language that I know. It's fine but it's nothing special; BEAM is a better argument for it than Elixir itself.

Maybe rein it in a bit.