Also I really have no interest in learning a language just to write yet another website in.
It depends on what you mean by website and what your goals are. What Erlang/Elixir provide is distribution, fault tolerance, and concurrency in the most straight forward way I've experienced coming from any other language. If you're making brochure sites, it's not a compelling cost tradeoff, but if your target is a highly concurrent, fault tolerant service that can be easily distributed across 100s of servers, then it's going to be much harder to find an alternative. Elixir 1.0 should be out later this summer. It should be a smoother ride after that.
By no means did I mean the version being sub-1.0 is a negative, just it should serve as a signal to people about what their expectations should be like.
By web application, I mean, you know, I've got a full toolkit for putting & serving stuff on the web. BEAM seems like it's better suited for web server software, vice the db read/write/template rendering/etc. part.
Elixir/BEAM is a fantastic target for a full web application toolkit. We're building just that with Phoenix. The ecosystem has a ways to go, but as a community, we're just getting started.
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We're working on full-featured Elixir web framework: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix
It depends on what you mean by website and what your goals are. What Erlang/Elixir provide is distribution, fault tolerance, and concurrency in the most straight forward way I've experienced coming from any other language. If you're making brochure sites, it's not a compelling cost tradeoff, but if your target is a highly concurrent, fault tolerant service that can be easily distributed across 100s of servers, then it's going to be much harder to find an alternative. Elixir 1.0 should be out later this summer. It should be a smoother ride after that.
By no means did I mean the version being sub-1.0 is a negative, just it should serve as a signal to people about what their expectations should be like.
By web application, I mean, you know, I've got a full toolkit for putting & serving stuff on the web. BEAM seems like it's better suited for web server software, vice the db read/write/template rendering/etc. part.
Elixir/BEAM is a fantastic target for a full web application toolkit. We're building just that with Phoenix. The ecosystem has a ways to go, but as a community, we're just getting started.