If you are coming to elixir from a rails background, how does it compare? I looked a year or two ago and the number of packages was far smaller with elixir, which turned me off of it.
I think Elixir is quick to learn, long to master. You start off building web apps in Phoenix, being relatively productive from the start, and thinking to yourself "well, there's definitely some magic I don't understand, but this feels a lot like Ruby." You'll immediately notice and learn the smaller differences (immutability and pattern matching).
Then one day, you'll need to store and mutate data in process. And then you'll learn about GenServers and Supervisors.
Then one day, you'll want to have some base functionality but for whatever reason, composition isn't a good fit, so you'll start to dig into macros.
Fundamentally, Go is much more Ruby-like than Elixir (Ruby and Go have shared heap, global GC, array-based data structures, same evaluation strategy, mutability, ...). Elixir is very different. But it's discoverable.
There is more or less everything now. My complaint was the lack of and authentication framework and Coherence filled the void. I have no trouble finding modules to solve problems without coding the solution from scratch.
Then one day, you'll need to store and mutate data in process. And then you'll learn about GenServers and Supervisors.
Then one day, you'll want to have some base functionality but for whatever reason, composition isn't a good fit, so you'll start to dig into macros.
Fundamentally, Go is much more Ruby-like than Elixir (Ruby and Go have shared heap, global GC, array-based data structures, same evaluation strategy, mutability, ...). Elixir is very different. But it's discoverable.