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Elixir vs Go: what to learn in 2024
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Which one is better in the context of job opportunities?
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this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2023
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Unquestionably Golang if those are the two options. It'll give you a much better base to work with if you are still earlier in your career and is much more applicable to a lot of things.
Elixir is niche, the syntax doesn't share a lot of patterns with other languages, and no one is hiring for it. Also few people know it.
I want to caveat my answer with that I personally really like elixir, and would prefer to work with it myself over golang for some types of problems. Actor patterns are really cool.
Having tasted the syntax from both, I’d say Elixir is awesome. But it’s true that Elixir is niche.