Elixir for cynical curmudgeons
What a terrific write up!  I highly recommend the read.I too had an ephiphany when I realized Elixir was actually a Lisp.  The language went from mildly interesting to "holy crap I think this could be my favorite language."  Add on some wildly productive and pragmatic frameworks like Phoenix, Nerves, and increasingly Nx, and you've got a hell of a toolkit.My biggest criticism of Elixir has been the difficulty of writing quick scripts, but that story has improved greatly over the last couple of years.  I still turn to Ruby for scripts (especially since it's often present on systems and so easy to install), but this is a good reminder that it's time to try Elixir again for that.  In some ways it may be better, such as dealing with dependencies.  For exmaple I try hard to avoid using any non-standard libs with Ruby scripts so I can just use the system ruby, and don't have to ship a Gemfile and/or install any gems, or mess with chruby/asdf.  With Elixir that story looks even better since the deps can be part of the script itself.