Flamewar comments like this are not ok on HN and will get you banned if you do it repeatedly. Please make your substantive points without swipes.

Also, please keep tedious programming language flamewar like this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29288298 off HN. We're trying for something more interesting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... is totally unacceptable, and we ban accounts that carry on like that. I don't want to ban you, so please don't post like this again. In fact, please just stop posting about this topic and stick to things that genuinely gratify your intellectual curiosity. Conducting a putdown campaign against what other people like is an abuse of this site.

Ban away dude, who cares.

:: let me hand-wave a merely possible but not at all guaranteed negative future scenario to argue against a better solution today ::

that's basically what you just did. "Electric cars will pollute someday! Just you wait!" >..<

Keep in mind that I've worked on small Ruby projects as well, and still prefer Elixir.

I'm not gonna suggest that there wouldn't be challenges in that scenario, but it just seems to me so far that they'd be much more manageable given the thoughtful design of Elixir.

The biggest problem in my app currently is actually JS/Node dependency hell, not Elixir code... and the JS only makes up a small portion of my app! (I should have never used AdminLTE as a design template...) At least my JS is tested (which was another huge PITA to figure out... simulating a DOM...)

I sometimes wonder whether your job is to be a full-time dick about Elixir.

It's been years of this nonsense. Let it go.