Comment on Rust vs. Go: Battle for the Back EndparentComments−nesarkvechnep1yFor backend almost certainly the winner is Elixir. It’s been slept on for years.−DeathArrow1yIt might be a winner but who is going to employ you to write Elixir?−Gud1yI’ve been around long enough to see the underdog beat the well funded #1.Linux beat Windows, PostgreSQL beat MySQL.−derekperkins1yI'm not sure either of those examples is true. For servers, Linux won, but that's just a fraction of OS usage. MySQL still has much higher usage rates than Postgres, particularly at massive scale, so calling that "won" is premature at best
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For backend almost certainly the winner is Elixir. It’s been slept on for years.
It might be a winner but who is going to employ you to write Elixir?
I’ve been around long enough to see the underdog beat the well funded #1.
Linux beat Windows, PostgreSQL beat MySQL.
I'm not sure either of those examples is true. For servers, Linux won, but that's just a fraction of OS usage. MySQL still has much higher usage rates than Postgres, particularly at massive scale, so calling that "won" is premature at best