I agree with you. Elixir can help in the web side of things but tasks/non-web in Elixir don't help. I really like Go's offering, but it gives me 4x the pain in developing a solution that ruby does (eg: parsing anything, etc). I would love to simply use a compiled, optimized ruby (like Crystal)
That's one of the reasons I migrated to Go instead of Elixir (plus, I love the idea of suddenly having system programming within reach). But doing so, I haven't explored deeply enough Elixir and Crystal. Would you say they each provide something, not related to taste, that Go doesn't have (or that Go is doing worse)?
I'd compare Go to Crystal. Go is more mature and stable but crystal a little faster thanks to LLVM. Plus I like Crystal's syntax better. I've been contributing to the crystal ecosystem with some libs and use it for personal stuff but I use Go at work. Once Crystal hits 1.0 and has good parallelism then I think it could be used as a drop-in replacement for Go for most use cases.
