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Discussion on: Why might I want to learn Elixir?

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Josh Cheek

Because you use Ruby but want to learn Erlang. Why do you use Ruby but want to learn Erlang? Because you're using Rails to write web services and you're hitting performance bottlenecks and reliability issues and going to tremendous effort to optimize and add infrastructure. But instead of taping a rock to the end of your screwdriver, you could just use a hammer.