[diminish]

I wouldn't pick Elixir because:

Rails has revolutionized web application development on Ruby, with Sinatra as the minimalist version and a lot of "me too" frameworks have been developed, and somehow I like them all.

* On Python, Django and Flask * On Elixir, Phoenix * On Crystal, Amber * On Javascript Express js for Sinatra. But on JS we didn't get a successful Rails clone, but a storm of front end frameworks, finally Vue JS/React and endless others.

I wouldn't pick Elixir because The world is elsewhere: My choice is on JavaScript ES6, Vue, and a simple Express.js, Sinatra, Flask for most projects.

[rootlocus]

> The world is elsewhere

The world is everywhere. Other people have pointed out Elixir is very good at taking advantage of multiple cores and writing distributed applications which are easier to reason about, less error prone and very efficient. I wouldn't say the same things about javascript.

[seanhandley]

> I wouldn't pick Elixir because The world is elsewhere

People said the same thing about PHP when Rails was first on the scene and there are still way more PHP web apps out there. You could say the world still runs on PHP but that's not a good enough justification to choose it.

[thedoops]

If all you're doing is CRUD apps, there's not much more to gain from Elixir. But if you're doing things like pulling in Redis or Sidekiq, or building around realtime use cases - Elixir has so much more to give you.