[hderms]

I had some limited experience with Go, and some limited experience with elixir, but I walked away feeling like Elixir is better for making distributed systems. I guess the learning curve for Elixir is way higher if someone has no experience with functional languages, but the benefits are probably greater as well.

If I wanted to quickly prototype some highly concurrent service, I'd probably use Go. If I wanted to engineer something that is incredibly scaleable and fault tolerant, I'd probably use Elixir.

The C-ish-syntax and procedural nature of Go is likely to give it more mindshare in the programming community, however, and that can't be ignored.