Ruby is just such an easy language to jump into programming that it is hard to see its obsolescence for a long time to come. It has a mature community and it is difficult to find a question to ask that hasn't already been answered on stack 3 years ago.
I started with Ruby. It's still the most delightful programming language I've ever worked with. But I drank the cool aide, or in this case, the Elixir. I despised (and continue to have a strong dislike for) the JS world, outside of using vanilla js for what I need to. That left me feeling a bit out, and in that, I stumbled across Elixir and fell in love. I imagine being an elixir dev today feels like being a Ruby/Rails dev in 2008. The future is bright.
Since the lead dev on Elixir, José Valim was heavily involved in the Ruby project, and the Pheonix (Elixir equivalent to Rails) creator, Chris McCoord was loved and a known figure in the Rails community, both make a Ruby/Rails dev feel right at home in the Elixir/Phoenix world.
I honestly think there will be a slow but steady migration of Rails devs to Elixir Phoenix over the next couple years, and Ruby will slowly turn into a stable, mature software that continues to run many apps until they slowly build out key parts to alternate code. I love Ruby, but for the savings in resources and sake of sanity Functional Programming offers, I'm a happy Elixir convert.
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Ruby is just such an easy language to jump into programming that it is hard to see its obsolescence for a long time to come. It has a mature community and it is difficult to find a question to ask that hasn't already been answered on stack 3 years ago.
I started with Ruby. It's still the most delightful programming language I've ever worked with. But I drank the cool aide, or in this case, the Elixir. I despised (and continue to have a strong dislike for) the JS world, outside of using vanilla js for what I need to. That left me feeling a bit out, and in that, I stumbled across Elixir and fell in love. I imagine being an elixir dev today feels like being a Ruby/Rails dev in 2008. The future is bright.
Since the lead dev on Elixir, José Valim was heavily involved in the Ruby project, and the Pheonix (Elixir equivalent to Rails) creator, Chris McCoord was loved and a known figure in the Rails community, both make a Ruby/Rails dev feel right at home in the Elixir/Phoenix world.
I honestly think there will be a slow but steady migration of Rails devs to Elixir Phoenix over the next couple years, and Ruby will slowly turn into a stable, mature software that continues to run many apps until they slowly build out key parts to alternate code. I love Ruby, but for the savings in resources and sake of sanity Functional Programming offers, I'm a happy Elixir convert.