[varispeed]

Any tips why would you want to learn Elixir or what would you use it for?

I tried to learn it a couple of years ago. Bought a book and couldn't shake the impression that it was created to be complex and hard to reason about or maybe I am wrong and it is "easy", but has a steep learning curve?

That being said, I looked at Go around the same time and I clicked instantly. Easy to read, simple and yet powerful.

[stu2b50]

It shines at creating highly concurrent applications with a great deal of built in features to provide reliability and resilience. Sounds a lot like a server, and that's what much of the modern use for Elixir is. In particular, one area where it shines is stateful, long-lived requests (e.g, websockets) where many other concurrency models will either rely much more on databases to track state or potentially get choked up.

If nothing else it's neat to learn as one of the few somewhat well used languages in modern times that actually adheres to Alan Kay's original conception of OOP.