[sb8244]

I've been fortunate to work with a CTO that sees the value in Elixir and also letting us push forward with it. It has been excellent. At this point we have about 20 engineers who have chosen to work in it close to full time for their services.

It's hard to pick one big draw, but I'd say the biggest for me is that everything I wanted to do in rails has been possible in Elixir and then additional functionality not easily possible in rails is trivial in Elixir. I often consider the distribution techniques as "enhancers" as you could work around them with global locks and data stores, but you don't need to.

I'm very bullish on Elixir and I'm curious to see where it will go. Looking forward to giving my talk about bringing Elixir into production (from a human and technical standpoint) at Lonestar Elixir conference.

[pmarreck]

> everything I wanted to do in rails has been possible in Elixir and then additional functionality not easily possible in rails is trivial in Elixir

I also noticed that every functionality I write in both Ruby and Elixir is both more concise (less code) in Elixir as well as 5-10x faster :)