[andykx]

I think Ruby developers are a lot more likely to switch to Crystal than Elixir. Elixir encourages a much more functional style than I think Ruby developers are used to.

[tomc1985]

Probably depends on the type of Ruby developer. As a Rails guy Elixir seems more useful for my day-to-day but Crystal is indeed compelling.

[todotask]

When I did a comparison:

Crystal has 1,209 repos https://github.com/topics/crystal

Ruby has 19,721 https://github.com/topics/ruby

For those who needs performance for specific tasks, the option is easy since it’s a small investment to learn Crystal but Elixir is mature.

If we are targeting DevOp, other languages has several advantage like Go for microservices and could be work within mobile app.

[conradfr]

There is definitely a lot of Elixir developers who come from Ruby. I mean José Valim himself was a core RoR team member.

I'm trying to find an Elixir job right now and pretty much all of these comes with a RoR requirement. (also it seems some companies are moving from Elixir to Go).

As I'm mostly a PHP / Symfony guy I feel the disconnect, and at my current place people really don't care about Elixir at all. Basically Go and Node would be much better prospect for me.