During a recent developer meetup in my country, I went to an elixir workshop where the host (an independent consultant) confided in us that several of her main clients had asked her to not reveal that they use elixir - they're apparently so happy with their choice that they treat it as a competitive advantage and claim to use a different stack when asked by competitors.

I can't know for sure if she was bluffing, but the idea really was interesting enough to make me wonder.

Edit: sorry, this was supposed to be a top level comment.

I've heard that a few times now, so I'm not sure if its a sort of community marketing meme or an actual truth. And I'm in the community :P

I'm surprised there are so many comments surrounding debugging in this thread. Did you use `require IEx; IEx.pry()` in your code at all? This gives you almost the exact same experience as calling `debugger;` within javascript. If so what was lacking with that experience?

Regarding debugging, I left a comment higher in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20359699

Try IEx.pry. It's everything breakpoints and watches are and more, in my opinion.