A developer shares their experience using both Go and Elixir together rather than choosing one over the other. Go excels at building small, fast, short-lived commands and binaries that integrate well with Kubernetes, while Elixir and the BEAM shine for long-running, fault-tolerant, stateful systems. The author argues the two are complementary: Elixir handles orchestration and user-facing resilience, while Go provides speed and extensibility beyond the BEAM's boundaries. Rust is briefly considered but dismissed as too rigid for business-logic thinking. The post concludes that using the best tool for each problem is a strength, not indecision.
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A bit of background #But they grow on you #Getting to know Elixir and the BEAM again #Elixir and the BEAM elevate my thinking. Go brings me back to Earth #Go and Elixir working together? #No one is perfect #4 Impressions