Thanks! 
I can understand the PTSD of that kind of work.
I started my last couple of side projects because there is a kind of rivalry at my company between Go Programmers and Elixir Programmers, and the main point that the Go programmers continuously make is performance. Of course the performance they are talking about is by using extremely optimized low level Go libraries like fasthttp instead of the more established and simpler to use web frameworks web frameworks, so I decided to start looking at libraries that leverage NIFs better, like Jiffy, to see how big the performance boost is, in order to prove that when used write and written well, Elixir/Erlang can be just as performant.
