@troonigger Yeah. I really don't understand the hate either, but from what I can tell, the debate on which server-side language you should use is much more divisive than the debate on general-purpose languages.
I also like to go by the "keep it simple stupid" philosophy, so I would just go with the language that everyone is use to and is the most widely supported as opposed to some obscure language/library/framework that is going to require contributors to jump through hoops. Like seriously, I didn't know what Elixir was until I heard of Pleroma.