I love the idea of Erlang (and by association Elixir), OTP, BEAM...

In practice? Urgh.

The live is all so cerebral and theoretical and I'm certain the right people know how to implement it for the right tasks in the right way and it screams along.

But as yet no one has been able to give me an incling of how it would work well for me.

I read learn you some Erlang for great good quite a while back and loved the idea. But it just never comes together for me in practice. Perhaps I'm simply in the wrong domain for it.

What I really needed was a mentor and existing project to contribute to at work. But it's impossible to get hold of either in the areas I'm in.