Although, actually, I'm converting it all to C#, since we don't really have a lot of elixir people in the shop (I had to learn Elixir just to do the maintenance when I came onboard.)
The lack of APIs can be painful at times. What is there sometimes isn't the most fun to deal with outside of the ecosystem (the driving force of the language conversion was issues using Phoenix Channels reliably with non-elixir consumers, and during the conversion we are dealing with the minor pain of pulling certain data out of an mnesia data store.)
But, I mostly enjoyed my time playing with it.
Biggest observation was that the IDE Tooling didn't feel as nice as, say, F#, which makes a bit of a difference when you're not dealing with the language day-to-day and need helpful reminders for how you're getting certain things wrong.
Although, actually, I'm converting it all to C#, since we don't really have a lot of elixir people in the shop (I had to learn Elixir just to do the maintenance when I came onboard.)
The lack of APIs can be painful at times. What is there sometimes isn't the most fun to deal with outside of the ecosystem (the driving force of the language conversion was issues using Phoenix Channels reliably with non-elixir consumers, and during the conversion we are dealing with the minor pain of pulling certain data out of an mnesia data store.)
But, I mostly enjoyed my time playing with it.
Biggest observation was that the IDE Tooling didn't feel as nice as, say, F#, which makes a bit of a difference when you're not dealing with the language day-to-day and need helpful reminders for how you're getting certain things wrong.