Elixir vs Rust | What are the differences?

Elixir

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Rust

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Followers2.7K

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Pros of Elixir

Pros of Rust

163
Concurrency
149
Functional
126
Erlang vm
109
Great documentation
102
Great tooling
81
Immutable data structures
77
Open source
74
Pattern-matching
61
Easy to get started
57
Actor library
28
Ruby inspired
28
Functional with a neat syntax
24
Homoiconic
22
Erlang evolved
20
Beauty of Ruby, Speed of Erlang/C
17
Fault Tolerant
13
High Performance
13
Simple
10
Good lang
9
Doc as first class citizen
9
Stinkin' fast, no memory leaks, easy on the eyes
8
Pipe Operator
7
Resilient to failure
6
Fun to write
5
GenServer takes the guesswork out of background work
5
OTP
4
Not Swift
4
Pattern matching
4
Idempotence
4
Fast, Concurrent with clean error messages
2
Error isolation
1
Dynamic Typing

124
Guaranteed memory safety
112
Fast
74
Open source
68
Minimal runtime
59
Pattern matching
54
Type inference
52
Algebraic data types
46
Concurrent
43
Efficient C bindings
38
Practical
30
Best advances in languages in 20 years
22
Fix for C/C++
22
Safe, fast, easy + friendly community
18
Closures
17
Stablity
16
Zero-cost abstractions
14
Extensive compiler checks
12
Great community
9
No Garbage Collection
9
No NULL type
8
Super fast
8
Async/await
8
Completely cross platform: Windows, Linux, Android
7
Safety no runtime crashes
7
Great documentations
6
High-performance
6
High performance
6
Guaranteed thread data race safety
6
Fearless concurrency
6
Generics
5
RLS provides great IDE support
5
Compiler can generate Webassembly
5
Easy Deployment
5
Prevents data races
5
Painless dependency management
4
Helpful compiler
4
Macros
1
Support on Other Languages

Cons of Elixir

Cons of Rust

11
Fewer jobs for Elixir experts
7
Smaller userbase than other mainstream languages
5
Elixir's dot notation less readable ("object": 1st arg)
3
Dynamic typing
1
Not a lot of learning books available

21
Hard to learn
20
Ownership learning curve
7
Unfriendly, verbose syntax
3
Variable shadowing
2
Many type operations make it difficult to follow
2
High size of builded executable
2
No jobs

What is Elixir?

Elixir leverages the Erlang VM, known for running low-latency, distributed and fault-tolerant systems, while also being successfully used in web development and the embedded software domain.

What is Rust?

Rust is a systems programming language that combines strong compile-time correctness guarantees with fast performance. It improves upon the ideas of other systems languages like C++ by providing guaranteed memory safety (no crashes, no data races) and complete control over the lifecycle of memory.

What companies use Elixir?

What companies use Rust?