Choosing Between Elixir/Phoenix and Ruby on Rails for a Scientific Research Collaboration Platform

The author is in the process of creating a software platform comparable to GitHub or GitLab but focused on scientific research collaboration. With prior experience in Erlang and Elixir, as well as expertise in other programming languages, they are deliberating whether to adopt Elixir/Phoenix or Ruby on Rails for the development of their MVP. The author is intrigued by Elixir's potential for maintainability and scalability despite recognizing the success of existing platforms built with Ruby on Rails. Furthermore, they are querying the relevance of Elixir educational resources from 2017, considering the evolution of Elixir since then.