I’ve written a blog post on the Spreedly engineering blog about my experience coming to Elixir from an object oriented background.

Concurrency is hard and complicated with threads and mutexes and so Elixir must be hard and complicated right? Elixir must be a language for serious programming programmers doing serious programming!

What I found was that concurrency doesn’t have to be the hard part! Elixir doesn’t solve the concurrency problems of a language like Ruby… it avoids them entirely!

https://engineering.spreedly.com/blog/youre-smart-enough-for-elixir.html