The problem is that I was/still am a rookie of a programmer. I could not wrap my head around async in Python. I just wasn't getting it. I had a nagging sense that it was going to fail in the middle of the night and there was nothing I could do about it.
So, enter Elixir, which actually has a syntax that is kind of close to Python. It made immediate sense. If you want to do something that can cause the program to fail, do it in a process and send a message back with the result. If the program spawning the process fails, the supervisor will restart it!
Sorry - back to your question - and this will probably disatisfy you, but the answer is that everything was neat. It was just simple CRUD stuff, but doing it in Python didn't feel "robust" enough.
I'm fully aware that my reasons are superficial, but the way Elixir works has made me way more confident as a programmer.
This isn't your fault. Python doesn't get the asynchronous stuff particularly right, nor does it make it as straightforward as it should. I've moved to Elixir and one of my employers has moved to Go as a direct result of Python's concurrency model (and the hilariously needless and recondite primitives attached). Your reasons aren't particularly superficial; I'd pick the Actor model over systemd and uWSGI for anything critical!
The problem is that I was/still am a rookie of a programmer. I could not wrap my head around async in Python. I just wasn't getting it. I had a nagging sense that it was going to fail in the middle of the night and there was nothing I could do about it.
So, enter Elixir, which actually has a syntax that is kind of close to Python. It made immediate sense. If you want to do something that can cause the program to fail, do it in a process and send a message back with the result. If the program spawning the process fails, the supervisor will restart it!
Sorry - back to your question - and this will probably disatisfy you, but the answer is that everything was neat. It was just simple CRUD stuff, but doing it in Python didn't feel "robust" enough.
I'm fully aware that my reasons are superficial, but the way Elixir works has made me way more confident as a programmer.