I&#x27;m a Rails developer so the transition was really smooth. I&#x27;m also very curious so I&#x27;ve tried a host of other languages in my time (Clojure, Haskell, Go, OcaML) so it wasn&#x27;t too difficult to pick up. One thing I love is that if something isn&#x27;t written in Elixir, you can just call the underlying Erlang library and have access to essentially two languages at once.<p>I also love how fast it is - things render extremely quickly even on a hobby dyno, which is impressive because that would never happen on a Rails side project. I also love the out-of-the-box ES6 support for JavaScript. Plus, I just really love writing in a functional programming style, so the language makes a lot of sense while retaining the ease of use when reading a language like Ruby or Python.