[anthony_doan]

My current side project is in Elixir/Phoenix and it's sweet. Currently on 1.8.

I'm hoping to move to 1.9. The language just fit my ideology better, Jose Valim just stated that the language is mostly complete. All major planned features are completed unless something come up. The language isn't bloated, it's small and sweet, and it doesn't go out of the way to add random unnecessary features to the core.

I was fullstack since ~2008 and it is becoming pretty hard to be fullstack when frontend moves too dang fast for me. So the pace of Elixir and Phoenix is amazing. I know these two technology are relatively new but compare to its peers it's boring tech; as in it's battle proven and it's not going to radically change that often (at least not for the sake of hype or reinventing the wheel).

The community over at elixirforum is nice. There seems to be quite a few camps. The ones that stands out to me are the web dev and embedded camps.

[TylerE]

The important thing to add here is that since it has powerful, hygienic, macros, there is nothing stopping you (or library writers) from adding new constructs and abstractions with zero runtime performance hit.