I am learning Elixir and Phoenix. And to be honest I am not sure I like either. The lack of decent resources (I mainly use Python and JavaScript with some C#) so I am used to reading a lot of blog posts, I don’t really like the documentation and the answers in forums are over verbose. And then there is Ecto which gives me new respect for SQLAlchemy or even solutions in C#. Debugging is a bit rubbish as well and to top it off it’s not typed. Pattern matching is kinda cool though.
Maybe give F# a try. It's functional, strongly typed and since you already know .NET and C# the ecosystem and tooling will be familiar to you and could lessen the learning curve.
I am going to read it, I have heard good things so will put it on the todo list for this week. I usually enjoy learning languages so I don’t know why I am hating on this so much ( last time I felt like this was with Ruby which was mainly due to the community )