Should Elixir replace Ruby for simple scripting?

[smathy]

@rahil627

perhaps over-time, I’ll be able to think functionally and use elixir for scripting too?..

is everyone here writing their little everyday scripts in elixir? Were there times one even had to reach for ruby?

IMHO other tools definitely have better options for the sorts of scripts I find myself writing, although I tend to reach for sed, awk or sh (and occasionally perl) rather than ruby. By the time a script approaches something more like an ETL then I’m going to be writing a mix task, although nowadays I’ll be seriously considering livebook.