[john_the_writer]

It's not really filling a void.

Rails and Python have a answer to the same issue, and more libraries available to them.

Also. (and I spend 90% of my time as a paid elixir dev). It's an ugly language that makes you roll your own on so much. Migrations require you change the schemas, and you have schema modules and access modules.

The elixir docs are a mess of assumptions and there's no consistency. The number of times I have to Enum.into(%{}) after doing something with a map. Oh.. And Enum.map returns a list which is not an array but is represented in the language as an array..

Also.. With many JS libs don't embrace the many small calls to get data, so the OTP/threading side of elixir (Which is awesome) is almost never called on. Bigger calls are favoured, and elixir isn't great at this (or well no better than rails)

On the whole, I'd say the benefits of using elixir are never realised, but the cost of using elixir is paid regardless.

[elicksaur]

> Enum.map returns a list which is not an array but is represented in the language as an array

What do you mean by this?

[icedchai]

Elixir lists are linked lists, not arrays. Syntactically, however, they do "look like" arrays. I imagine someone coming from another language is going to be confused by this...