I did Ruby since 2011, and tried Elixir in December 2019. I really hated the verbose syntax compared to Ruby, which has a comparatively simple syntax. The next thing I hated in Elixir was the boiler plate for GenServers and having to deal with pids and named processes. However, this weekend, I rewrote about 2k lines of sloppy elixir that I hastily copy pasted, and condensed it down to around 700-800 lines in a few hours with barely any effort. It was easy because it's just functions calling functions. I guess I'm kind of a believer now. Besides that, Phoenix channels are very performant, which makes me think I might switch from Ruby to Phoenix permanently.
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I did Ruby since 2011, and tried Elixir in December 2019. I really hated the verbose syntax compared to Ruby, which has a comparatively simple syntax. The next thing I hated in Elixir was the boiler plate for GenServers and having to deal with pids and named processes. However, this weekend, I rewrote about 2k lines of sloppy elixir that I hastily copy pasted, and condensed it down to around 700-800 lines in a few hours with barely any effort. It was easy because it's just functions calling functions. I guess I'm kind of a believer now. Besides that, Phoenix channels are very performant, which makes me think I might switch from Ruby to Phoenix permanently.
Try sticking through it.