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by pdimitar 2704 days ago
Elixir and Go are not mutually exclusive though.

As another sibling comment said: they serve different niches. I'd always reach for Elixir/Phoenix for any web app, or even API (if it's a big app). Also anything that requires heavy concurrency -- web spiders, data collectors of many kinds, scatter/gather flows (or any multi-stage flows; Elixir makes those processes brain-dead easy to code) -- then Erlang/Elixir are a no-brainer. People keep wrongfully underestimating them.

But if I am to write a CLI app or a very heavy-duty network daemon, Go is IMO hands down unbeaten and the best possible choice. Also anything that requires serious number crunching.
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weberc2 2704 days ago
> Elixir and Go are not mutually exclusive though.

To be clear, I claimed nothing to the contrary. :) I only argued that concurrency isn't the only criteria in choosing a programming language for a particular project.

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pdimitar 2704 days ago
True. I mostly wrote my reply to help future readers.

Sorry, didn't mean to leave you with the impression that you misworded your comment! :)

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