>> Node is a single-threaded event loop, if the process crashes for one user, it crashes for all the requests being handled by that process. i.e. one user can crash the server for hundreds/thousands of people! This is a terrible design flaw
This is a design flaw on the part of the team who is using Node.js incorrectly and not a flaw of Node.js itself. There are many ways to implement error handling properly in Node.js so that a user cannot crash a whole server/process and there are a lot of frameworks which implement this by default.
Elixir is over-marketed and over-hyped. It's obvious that there is a big money machine behind it. The entire community is obsessed with evangelizing; they're not getting organic growth; they have very aggressive marketing but it's mostly founded on exaggerations and flat out lies.
In addition to what I've pointed out above, to say that someone can learn Elixir in just 1 week is another example of a lie. It takes years to fully understand the nuances of a language to the point that you can be good at it; there are always a lot of patterns to learn; especially for functional programming languages.
The Elixir ecosystem will never be as significant as that of Node.js because Elixir's ecosystem is founded on hype. Part of the greatness of Node.js is that reality tends to exceed expectations; so-called 'thought leaders' and 'bloggers' have been working very hard to discredit Node.js from the beginning but they failed (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3062271).
I'm not going to consider using Elixir while it's so clearly over-marketed and over-hyped.
In their Slack channel they orchestrate organized upvotes of such post like this one, they collectively downvote people like the parent and post fanboism through several accounts.
This is a design flaw on the part of the team who is using Node.js incorrectly and not a flaw of Node.js itself. There are many ways to implement error handling properly in Node.js so that a user cannot crash a whole server/process and there are a lot of frameworks which implement this by default.
Elixir is over-marketed and over-hyped. It's obvious that there is a big money machine behind it. The entire community is obsessed with evangelizing; they're not getting organic growth; they have very aggressive marketing but it's mostly founded on exaggerations and flat out lies.
In addition to what I've pointed out above, to say that someone can learn Elixir in just 1 week is another example of a lie. It takes years to fully understand the nuances of a language to the point that you can be good at it; there are always a lot of patterns to learn; especially for functional programming languages.
The Elixir ecosystem will never be as significant as that of Node.js because Elixir's ecosystem is founded on hype. Part of the greatness of Node.js is that reality tends to exceed expectations; so-called 'thought leaders' and 'bloggers' have been working very hard to discredit Node.js from the beginning but they failed (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3062271).
I'm not going to consider using Elixir while it's so clearly over-marketed and over-hyped.