[zambal]

> deployment is terrible like really bad

I've seen this stated many times as one of the big drawbacks of Beam languages. But using Distillery with Elixir, it's very easy to generate a release that's completely self contained. Just extract a tarball on a freshly installed system and you are ready to go. If your target platform differs from the one you are compiling your project on, there are various options for cross compiling too

[dnautics]

We just bumped to elixir 1.9 and I'm enjoying seamlessly deploying to our dev environment with a single command from Linux and my juniors are working on getting it to go for Mac via vagrant.