From Ruby to Elixir

The Case for Elixir

Anytime you pick a new technology, you’ll have to make a case for it. The first consideration is your personal decision of whether you want to spend time learning the language. Next, you’ll need to bring it to your professional peers and get their buy-in that they also want to spend time learning it. Finally, your business will need to make the case of whether they want to invest in it. Even if you’re just a hobbyist who is curious about Elixir, you still need to justify learning it over other languages.

The technical aspects of a language are obviously important in these decisions, but the nontechnical aspects are just as important. In the previous section, we spent a lot of time talking about the nontechnical aspects that ...