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by ogogmad 1338 days ago
I don't know. It seems to me Elixir requires a new and rather restrictive programming paradigm. For me, that's even worse than being overengineered.
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> new

Erlang has been around since what, the 80s? Elixir is "just" Erlang with a different face and extra features.

> restrictive

which is? Functional programming? Immutability?

Interestingly, Erlang is often called a "true" object-oriented language thanks to its actor model. It's incredibly powerful and flexible, pretty much the opposite of restrictive. Just for a simple example, you can inspect, debug and modify your program while it's running.

From your comment it just seems you're not familiar with it.