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I only started with Elixir in recent months and it's the first language that has ever made me comfortable about writing concurrent code. I didn't spend a lot of time with Go, but the idea of just calling a function that is now running in parallel but was always disconcerting to me. Of course, I could have spent more time with it and gotten more comfortable learning the ins-and-outs, but Erlang/Elixir's addressable processes running with their own stack/heap/gc and passing messages between each other is something that clicked very quickly with me. It's such an incredibly simple idea. For being a "weird" language, I think there is a lot of power the simplicity of its design, especially around learning. You just have to get over the weird syntax (which is a hot topic).

For transparency, I've never written any production code in either Elixir or Go.

[rightbyte]

The funny thing is that Erlang is the Ericsson language. Go is the Google language.

Ericsson never had the Google "street cred" or K& not R. Ericsson is boring phone interchanges and boring radio. Google was hipster latte with software freedom before it turned out to be worse than MS, IBM and Oracle combined.

One might wonder what could have been without all the smoke and mirrors.