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Between Go and Elixir
I discovered Elixir and Go at about the same time (2019). I had pivoted almost eight years of working as a Java developer, and part of me was looking for a new technical challenge. On my first encounter, I did not like either. Go felt far too simplistic to be an actual language. Elixir felt far too bizarre - a way of encouraging the Ruby community to try Erlang - a battle-tested language but shrouded with mysticism and urban legends. Little did I know, they would be instrumental in my decisions a couple of years later…
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