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Discussion on: Why might I want to learn Elixir?

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nihar

I’m learning Elixir and I find it really great. I’ve been doing Ruby (and some other things) in the last 8 years and it is the language I like the most. Elixir comes with a great syntax and makes me feel comfortable when writing it.
Best Elixir tutorials recommended by programming community: hackr.io/tutorials/learn-elixir

Is it easy as Ruby on Rails?

Hm, that’s a strange comparison. But if you want to do web applications, I highly recommend you to check out Phoenix. In case you’re already doing Rails, it will not be so weird for you. They are not the same, but some concepts on Phoenix were inspired on Rails.

Hows the job offering these days?

Elixir is still in the early adopters phase, which means that you’ll be investing on Elixir future. I’m a big fan of being an early adopter (not so early, but…) because you’ll have the opportunity to build new things and help the community grow. But it’s a bet and has it’s risks. You may want to work with Java, it has many job offers available, but it’s not for me.

What can I build using Elixir?

Everything you want. For some of them, Elixir will be great and it will not be the best tool for others.

You want to build your own blog, for example. You may use Elixir to create it, but there are many other tools that will suite better for this case.

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DIVESH SANKHLA

Elixir is one of the best language functional language according to me. Your link content various good elixir tutorials also check letsfindcourse.com/elixir