If you had to pick between Go and Elixir for building a web application, what would you choose?

Go and Elixir are both relatively new and have brilliant concurrency models. What would you prefer to learn and build apps and why?

I wouldn't base my platform decision on its concurrency model. Elixir's strengths are in realtime processing for the most part, and more difficult to hire for web work. I wouldn't use Go for the majority of a web project either, but thats more personal preference.

Neither, Go is more for building services / server type applications (maybe good for backend applications) and Elixir has some niche applications with very few developers who knows it, so I'd steer clear of that as well unless it's a hobby project that you don't intend on growing into something bigger.

I'll choose Elixir 10 out of 10 times until I'm forced to use Go.

Also, note that I said for the majority of a web project - what I mean by this is that often the types of projects I work on are made of many (often separate) components, and depending on what a component is or does I'll use whatever platform is appropriate for it. For example, I'd (personally) use Rails for the "web" side, but if I needed some realtime functionality (web sockets, whatever) I would use something else for that part of the system as Rails just isn't suited for that sort of task. Essentially I'm not bound by any particular language or platform, and I have no qualms when it comes to mixing it up with different technologies to create a single solution.

Ok, got it. I'm also a person, who has no issues mixing things up. And I guess that is why I have a little knowledge in areas where my colleagues lack! Thanks for the answer. So Go is for back-end stuff like huge processing with concurrency control? I felt Go is somewhat like Python. Is it?

Well, Go is general purpose really but people seem to be using it for backend stuff and systems programming. Similar to Python in which respect?

@lisol It's good so far. Since I had to learn Scala and Go simultaneously, this is a bit tough for me. But so far, Go had been a lot easier to start than Scala!!

I reckon Go is a good replacement for C++

Scala's got ScalaJS which means you can write your backend and frontend in Scala - a good option if you already know Scala.

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