But I am not here to argue what most do. The discussion here, at least from my part, was to encourage someone to give an alternative tech a try. I did, I kept paying my bills with Rails but got intrigued, became better and better with Elixir, rewrote some stuff in it, demonstrated actual hosting savings (and reports being generated in 7 minutes as opposed to 3 hours with the Rails code) and the rest is history.

Even though you and me keep exchanging jabs here I'd like this to stop.

I don't intend to "shit" on anyone's tech choice. What I did and still do intend is to help somebody, here and there, to love their job. I've met a lot of miserable Java and Ruby on Rails devs.

For the sake of the civil discussion we both should stop assuming stuff.

I am grown up enough to not care about validation (and I think everybody shouldn't care about it either but it's not the world we live in, sadly). It's mostly about finding something that clicks better with your brain and gives you a peace of mind while working.

Rails didn't give me that. It gave me anxiety. I had to always be on watch what is shifting beneath my feet. A [mostly] FP tech stack gives you back the control to shoot your own foot as opposed to a library that's a dependency of the dependency of the library you need doing it. Okay? :)

> We all wanna get paid in the end of the day.

Well, exactly. But I also want to be happy while receiving a paycheck.