[carlmr]

>There is literally NO reason (other than time, mentoring and desire) that the jr. Java developers couldn't pick up Elixir in a short amount of time and be fully productive.

Put in another way. If your devs can't learn a new language that's not super foreign in 3-4 weeks to a decently productive level, you didn't hire good devs in the first place. I'm sure they would create a similar dumpster fire in Java.

[aloukissas]

True. But it's a big paradigm shift from OOP to FP with pattern matching and adopting the "let it crash" approach. But switching from Java to Elixir is a proven 1000% increase in developer happiness :)

[tracker1]

I've generally had the opinion of a let it all burn first approach... in web ui, first thing I do is mount an error handler for the window and unhandled promises that effectively clears body and set's its' innerHTML to <h1>Unexpected Error</h1>. Similar elsewhere forcing the process to exit.

If you're expecting a certain error condition, handle it, otherwise blow up the world, because you can no longer trust it.