I've been using it and it's been fun for learning rust. I've only done DNS and web server modules so far, but it has helped a lot in giving me goals that are achievable
CodeCrafters is a bit light on Elixir support at the moment (only 2/8 challenges support it so far). We're planning on expanding Elixir support soon.
Currently, we're a great fit for Rust / Python / Go - we support a variety of challenges for those, and there's lots of example code from other users to review and learn from.
~1500 people disagree with you and some of them bought both books ($99 and $250).
Yes, a lot of online tutorial and snippets. No argument here. Not a lot of material to build a complete project. The value is in "Fractured" vs "Whole" knowledge tree.
You may like Why Information Grows by Cesar Hidalgo. The principal behind it is called Economic Complexity. It is based on the applications of network and graph theory using export data of a country, region or city as a proxy to its productivity and innovation. I find it pretty interesting.
There is an adaptation of SICP written in JavaScript. It is used by the University of Singapore and it's frequently updated. It tries it best to retain the essence of the original but gives a new flavor to it by applying the concepts in ES6.