[larryweya]

I've had a keen interest in go but haven't used it for anything serious. My impression of it is that its a great replacement for languages like Python and is great at getting things running fast but I have to agree that it doesn't feel like the kind language I wouldn't want to write a large code base in. My huge interest in it is around the single binary deployment and its concurrency model. The language itself I find a bit quirky in some places (some data structures are passed by ref while other by value) and I like my languages concise and elegant.

This post got me to have a second look at Elixir and I spent the whole day going though its documentation and prototyping an idea I wanted to implement in go, specifically because of go's concurrency model. And frankly ELixir is exactly the right fit for me, not only for this case but generally as a language with the kind of elegance and expressiveness I'm drawn to.