(SRE at Localytics here.) I think one of the biggest things for us is that, primarily, we run Rails on the frontend and Scala on the backend. Elixir is exciti

(SRE at Localytics here.) I think one of the biggest things for us is that, primarily, we run Rails on the frontend and Scala on the backend. Elixir is exciting because we could potentially replace a lot of our frontend stuff with it, while not being terribly far from Ruby syntax. It's "approachable". On the flipside, it's potentially taking our Ruby code and making it more functional, getting closer to our Scala side of things. It's a very nice middle ground. In that regard, a lot of us here do feel very excited about Elixir, and so I think that comes through as a lot of hype. We're looking at it through the lens of what it could do for us, and we're naturally excited about that. :)