[aloukissas]

Elixir, with types

[pmarreck]

I love Elixir but you cannot compile it into a single binary, it is massively concurrent but single-threaded slow, and deployment is still nontrivial.

And lists are slower than arrays, even if they provide functional guarantees (everything is a tradeoff…)

That said, pretty much everything else about it is amazing though IMHO and it has unique features you won’t find almost anywhere else

[sarchertech]

That doesn’t exist yet. Also Elixir is in no way a replacement for Go.

It can’t match it for performance. There’s no mutable array, almost everything is a linked list, and message passing is the only way to share data.

I primarily use Elixir in my day job, but I just had to write high performance tool for data migration and I used Go for that.

[out_of_protocol]

My vote is for Elixir as well, but it's not a competitor for multiple important reasons. There are some languages in that niche, although too small and immature, like Crystal, Nim. Still waiting for something better.

P.S. Swift, anyone?

[sarchertech]

Last I checked Crystal’s compile time was too slow for me to deal with for anything beyond toy projects.

[Degorath]

Swift on Linux has been a fairly horrible experience, but the language looks promising.

[agos]

yeah, if the requirement is "makes it pretty straightforward to write reliable, highly concurrent services that don't rely on heavy multithreading", Elixir is a perfect match.

And even without types (which are coming and are looking good), Elixir's pattern matching is a thousands times better than the horror of Go error handling

[zwnow]

This one i can get behind.