[mrdoops]

I started learning Ruby/Rails early last year. After building a couple projects in Rails for some clients, I switched to learning Elixir/Phoenix instead. Rails has a lot of magic and implicit behavior you need to learn to use effectively. I still love Ruby; the ecosystem is very mature and stable and the language is just so damn expressive.

I switched largely because of the applications I wanted to build were very 'Reactive' and message/event driven. Elixir being an Erlang/Actor-Model derivative with the expressiveness of Ruby was a perfect fit.

Elixir's ecosystem and community hasn't had as much time to develop as Ruby, but it's still very capable and you're not going to run into scalability problems.

If your goal is to skill up and get a job asap, maybe Elixir isn't ready yet, but I'd pick it over anything else to build a greenfield application in.