Is it a good idea to learn Elixir?

If you have too much free time on your end, sure why not. If you can get paid for knowing Elixir, go for it.

I think it's always fun to learn new stuff, but only you know if it could be worth your time!

Sure, if you want to make highly concurrent, resilient and/or distributed systems, Erlang or Elixir are the way to go.

I had a subject on it last semester and learned all the proper tools as well because otherwise I would've felt I was wasting my time. It's a really fun language, very difficult to use efficiently outside its domain though. I wonder if it can be used for gamedev, opportunistic parallelization pairs well with a lot of common techniques there.

Without knowing the goal or is always going to be: it depends.

It's it worth learning concrete pouring. It's you have a paying job and have to do it for a shed probably not. Get a contractor.
If you want to build your own house it might be a goal to learn everything. Also it's a lot cheaper if you can get it done right.

Additional information:

I'm learning stuff mostly for fun. A few things on my mind are Rust, Elixir or some kind of LISP.

I do have personal project ideas. That means least effort for best coverage of devices. The first thing that comes to my mind is Dart/Flutter. But on the other hand, it doesn't give me as much excitement as these other niche languages.

@tw001 And it seems you can even write the backend using Dart.

If you want to do some fun with functional programming elixer comes highly recommended.

@tw001 I can heartily recommend Rust especially if you have projects, I think it's much easier to get shit done with it than with Elixir.

@bigmonsterlover thanks for your reply! wish big monster loves you back.

@hjk101 thanks for your reply. hope you can hijack 102 very soon.

@lorentz thanks for your reply! i'll try to learn both. lol.

@tw001 Hi y'all. Feel free to punch me. But after three challenges on Exercism, I'm done with Elixir.