I've landed on SvelteKit and classless CSS for most of my hobby projects.

I am interested in Elixir though, especially Phoenix, but found it to be difficult to manage and get started with in Windows.

Still looking for the easy way into learning to work with web sockets as a 41 year old man with very little spare time.

WSL2 should get you going?

That's what I would suggest as well. WSL2 and use asdf[1] to manage the erlang/elixir versions.

You could also use containers pretty easily as well with docker or podman for windows and the official Elixir images[2].

[1]: https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf

[2]: https://hub.docker.com/_/elixir