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A comment on Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?.
- mix and the general tooling (package management, testing, deployment)
- iex - specifically being able to run a shell at the same time as running my app. It makes it easy to test and explore code from the REPL
- documentation (both in iex and hexdocs) - Navigating Elixir documentation is standardized and easy
- Immutability - it took a while to get used to but now I wouldn't have it any other way
- mix and the general tooling (package management, testing, deployment)
- iex - specifically being able to run a shell at the same time as running my app. It makes it easy to test and explore code from the REPL
- documentation (both in iex and hexdocs) - Navigating Elixir documentation is standardized and easy
- Immutability - it took a while to get used to but now I wouldn't have it any other way