I think the functional approach is a bit scary for many developers, and to be honest, for what most developers build on a daily basis (small to medium-sized bloggish/cms sites) there is no reason for them to abandon their favorite stack.
I was thrown into Elixir because of demand, we had requirements that fit the language and it's stack perfectly, speed, distributed and soft real-time solutions.
Learning Elixir was a bi**ch for me. And I think a part of the problem lies in here. You don't learn Elixir as much as you unlearn or unwire your brain from everything you already know. It is so different.
But once you know your way around the language, you never wanna build stuff with other technologies. It's brilliant and thanks to Elixir I'm also learning Rust, Elixir and Rust work very well together.
I also think Elixir will have a bright future, but it will probably always be a bit niche, where certain industries will adopt the language, while it will be very Alien for the average web developer.
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I think the functional approach is a bit scary for many developers, and to be honest, for what most developers build on a daily basis (small to medium-sized bloggish/cms sites) there is no reason for them to abandon their favorite stack.
I was thrown into Elixir because of demand, we had requirements that fit the language and it's stack perfectly, speed, distributed and soft real-time solutions.
Learning Elixir was a bi**ch for me. And I think a part of the problem lies in here. You don't learn Elixir as much as you unlearn or unwire your brain from everything you already know. It is so different.
But once you know your way around the language, you never wanna build stuff with other technologies. It's brilliant and thanks to Elixir I'm also learning Rust, Elixir and Rust work very well together.
I also think Elixir will have a bright future, but it will probably always be a bit niche, where certain industries will adopt the language, while it will be very Alien for the average web developer.