Looking for a new language to a new project, maybe Elixir is the right answer?

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Go is my main language, but I’m really looking into learning something new. The two languages on my radar are Elixir and Rust.

I really like the error handling from Go, Elixir, and Rust. Sure, they handle different, but, in the end, it’s the same, no exception.

The thing is, this new project is a messaging system to deliver notifications to clients. But, I’m looking for more than this, maybe a new job using this tech, this would be nice too.

I know that I’m on an Elixir forum, but what you guys think of Rust? Does it make easier to develop and maintain the project as it is a compiled language? Also, it can do concurrency very well without being a functional language because of the borrow checker. So is a win win going with Rust?

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Rust is awesome, it integrates fantastically with Elixir/Erlang/BEAM, and it’s parallel and concurrency libraries are top notch, it even has an Actor style library (Actix). However it, like most compiled languages, don’t support hot-code swapping without a significant amount of work and prior design as well as supporting distributed work is more difficult, plus it still has a building ecosystem.

I’m quite a fan of Rust though, it’s build times definitely need some work though. :slight_smile:

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