Is Elixir a good first language?

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@Mazyod

With all that being said, if I were to wipe my programming experience, and start from scratch right now, and I need to write simple backend services for mobile apps, I’d probably choose Node.js.

Urgh! No, no, no, no, no!

(alright, I might be overreacting, but still…)

• Callback-based async makes it too easy to write spaghetti, and it’s syntactically nasty even in simple cases.
• JavaScript is way too dangerous without a linter. For example, while Elixir’s == converts between floats and ints and that’s it, JavaScript’s is just broken.