One of my new year's resolution was to pick up a new coding language and at least attain a beginners level in it.I had my options open and languages like Go,elixir and R came in mind.I had my doubts as to which language to go with,as I wanted to choose something that would help expand my tech stack as well as turn out to be really fun.I went with Elixir.

As many of you would know,Elixir is a functional language that can help us to develop scalable applications.It leverages the powerful Erlang VM in order to achieve this.

Given below are 3 reasons I could come up with, that convinced me to start coding in Elixir.

Easy to understand

One of the main reasons I chose elixir was that it is really easy to understand.It has easy syntax and the compiler offered is good too.

Functional

If you want to adopt functional programming Elixir would be a good option.It has most of the principles of functional programming in it.

Scalability

This is the reason why coders love elixir.The Erlang VM gives it scalability,the very edge it deserves.

There will be many other languages that could really compete with Elixir.But learning a new language is always fun.So Happy Coding.