This isn't an argument in bad faith or anything but if all this is so good why is Elixir not more popular? If it's basically Ruby on Erlang (which is what it feels like), you'd think it would've been trivial to retool a rails project to it and take advantage of this insane benefit. Instead the big switch was first to Scala (because of Twitter) and then Python (Dropbox et al.).
But yet here we are. Python is absolutely dominant in web and ML stuff. C is still one of the most popular languages to date. Elixir and Rust barely break top 50. We can't say people don't know about it. Surely if it was insanely powerful Google, Facebook, etc or some huge popular open source project would prove it's utility.
Why isn't it more popular? I ask this, because I have a hard time staking any project I make or work I do on languages that are always sold as extremely powerful but end up being a niche that has been memed into popularity (Rust falls in this category).
But yet here we are. Python is absolutely dominant in web and ML stuff. C is still one of the most popular languages to date. Elixir and Rust barely break top 50. We can't say people don't know about it. Surely if it was insanely powerful Google, Facebook, etc or some huge popular open source project would prove it's utility.
Why isn't it more popular? I ask this, because I have a hard time staking any project I make or work I do on languages that are always sold as extremely powerful but end up being a niche that has been memed into popularity (Rust falls in this category).