We need to talk about Elixir

In 2016, I heard about a new programming language called Elixir for the first time. I remember that I bought Programming in Elixir 1.3 book and got fascinated by how succinct the syntax was and how approachable functional programming would be (yes, I tried and failed to understand Clojure and got just a fraction of Scala earlier). Later, my career got into solutions architecture and cloud…