We also found the following article helpful when comparing Java to Elixir:
Elixir vs. Java: https://www.slant.co/versus/112/1540/~java_vs_elixir
TIOBE Ranking of Programming Languages popularity (Not neccessarily helpful for a decision)
seb5law
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OvermindDL1
Also add in:
– Many of the “known practices” are the opposite of “good practices”.
I’d say they are pretty easy to find actually, there is actually almost no documentation on how to do things wrong and a lot of documentation on how to do things right. 
You’ve not deployed a large Ruby or Java app from scratch have you… (It was so nice when discourse setup a docker image as the default way to set it up, holy hell it was painful before…).
Lol, I’ve been in it for a while. I’m still a bit more pro-C++ and pro-OCaml than I am pro-Rust (mostly because Rust has made some *really*stupid* design decisions outside of the awesome borrowing stuff).
Fortunately you can run a Java Node on a BEAM mesh. ^.^
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svsdehh
I have deployed some fairly large java apps and I still think the deployment is simpler with java – at least with our configuration where secrets are coming from vault etc pp.
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OvermindDL1
The vault is useful, still a bit of a pain, but quite useful, something like that would be convenient for Elixir.
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svsdehh
vault is language agnostic. https://www.vaultproject.io/
but – at least in our experience – it is easier to read the secrect in java in the start up procedure from vault then with elixir. but our java experience, on the other side, is much better than the one with elixir.
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OvermindDL1
Oh I thought you were speaking of the java key vault, that is something different entirely.
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restack_oslo
Eiji
@restack_oslo: I don’t have so many experience with Java, but here is what I think:
java < PHP < Ruby < Elixir
Why that?
- Java - I don’t worked with Java so much, but I tried it and lots of languages like it (for exxample Groovy). For me it’s much more harder to learn and develop. Simple one-line fixes with Groovy/Grails, Java-based editor and deployment (using Tomcat) was like a hell - it takes too more time and it’s not good for old computers.
- PHP - Easy to setup, but you need really lots of experience to secure it + you need to control your code really good. I remember true hell trying to help busy administrator in my first work. I was need to reinstall Joomla! and Wordpress sites really often and we waste lots of time on it. Also I heard about lots of security problems with PHP. It’s why in my first job we was focused on Groovy/Grails and Ruby/Rails.
- Ruby - For me it was a really good step forward. Much more secure that PHP and much more faster than Groovy/Grails + Tomcat, but it’s not all we can achieve.
- Elixir - One command
mix newis just too big advantage for me to even think about return to other languages.
Of course there is no language for everything, but I was really surprised seeing speed of combination Elixir with Rust - it’s awesome work!
This language have too many advantages to describe all in one post (do we have a post size limit?)
Elixir is my choice for future no matter how much job offers it will have. It’s too comfortable to change decision.
If someone is looking for Elixir developer then, please send me pw 
Last time my main project changed status to “side-project” and I’m looking for work in “normal” - i.e. 8h/5days per week project.
As @OvermindDL1 says Elixir is modern language with so many of helpful features that will definitely increase your experience with programming.
I don’t think so. We have more and more book and tutorials that helps not only with it. I saw lots of questions that asks for something that is already explained very well + I always can ask on forum if I don’t understand something. I believe that really good docs and some tools like credo have lots of tips for “Good Practices”.
Depends. Someone already created library that helps with writing one file scripts, so basically only count and quality of libraries and projects are limiting us!
In similar questions I recommend to watch materials like it:
As you can see only your skills can limit you when working with Elixir projects.
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hubertlepicki
Please note that wherever you go, to Elixir community, PHP, Java and Ruby, you’ll get different answers. You are hanging in forum full with Elixir fans at the moment so we’ll be biased towards that ;). On a PHP forum you’ll hear PHP is the best!
While in reality, you most likely want to ask this question about individual projects, and consider stuff like time, resources availability, hosting, certifications, deployment, onboarding staff etc etc. It’s a complicated task, choosing a stack
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NobbZ
If in any of those forums you’d get a truth answer its here.
PHP kiddies often do see “their” PHP as the only truth.
Java is just the best because its Oracle and therefore has a huge amount of money behind AND it is the language used nearly everywhere since 1998-ish
Well, Ruby does know about some of their problems (the “real” parallelism we got with 2.0 actually still isn’t real), but still they do not accept much languages aside of their own. Well except CoffeeScript, but thats only because the Rails-Team has decided on this for the community.
The Elixir community seems to be different. Of course, elixir is cool, its a fine language, but, we have NIFs, we have Ports. When we see, that a job doesn’t suite the BEAM, we switch over to a better suited language. Maybe we ask someone else to code that piece adhering our API (or erlangs). But we are able to choose and used to actually consider those things and also to integrate stuff into our system.
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