I've had the same, as an on/off thing. I recently went deep into an interview process with an Elixir shop, but pulled out for a more stable tech.
I really like Elixir, and I think there is space for it. However, from a web app perspective I realised that what I really liked about Elixir wasn't related to BEAM, processes, or the actor model; but architectural. The consistent layout of Phoenix applications is simple and pragmatic, and as someone overly subjected to dependency injection I appreciate it. I've successfully replicated the architecture in other languages, but it's more of an uphill battle.
That's not to say the BEAM doesn't give advantages. Per process garbage collection and preemptive scheduling yields an exceptionally pleasant environment. There are almost no GC pauses, and you can literally spin up 1000 infinite loop processes on a Phoenix node without effecting your latency.
I'd like to see better tooling for Elixir before I'm ready to commit harder. Some simple things are missing. Notable to me: the language server can't use type specs to provide code completion, and doesn't have the refactoring actions of more advanced systems. I miss being able to rename a function without grep.
I really like Elixir, and I think there is space for it. However, from a web app perspective I realised that what I really liked about Elixir wasn't related to BEAM, processes, or the actor model; but architectural. The consistent layout of Phoenix applications is simple and pragmatic, and as someone overly subjected to dependency injection I appreciate it. I've successfully replicated the architecture in other languages, but it's more of an uphill battle.
That's not to say the BEAM doesn't give advantages. Per process garbage collection and preemptive scheduling yields an exceptionally pleasant environment. There are almost no GC pauses, and you can literally spin up 1000 infinite loop processes on a Phoenix node without effecting your latency.
I'd like to see better tooling for Elixir before I'm ready to commit harder. Some simple things are missing. Notable to me: the language server can't use type specs to provide code completion, and doesn't have the refactoring actions of more advanced systems. I miss being able to rename a function without grep.