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by trojanh 2739 days ago
Learnt a lot of new things , learnt Elixir/Phoenix, now learning Nodejs with Hapi framework.

While learning Nodejs, realised that JS isn't the first language anyone should consider for back-end, but really amazed by things JS is capable of doing today.

Would highly recommend Elixir/ Phoenix over Rails , Elixir not only has lesser learning overhead it makes alot of things a lot easier. Concurrency and speed of server are major advantages but I like way language operates. It was also my first functional language and it changed my perspective for programming languages.

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Be careful. Elixir is the gateway drug to OTP. There's no going back once you get that taste of sweet sweet Actor-model concurrency.
I am already addicted but my organisation doesn't understand that. Node feels sloppy after that but have to work on it.