Why not just use Elixir to begin with? Ok, Node existed before Elixir, but erlang has been around a long time. It seems to me that engineering has become very

Why not just use Elixir to begin with? Ok, Node existed before Elixir, but erlang has been around a long time. It seems to me that engineering has become very cargo-cultish. "Lets use node cause we already know javascript" seems to be an argument that people who never learned Java or C/C++/Objective-C or Go or even Python or Ruby would make. Ok, there's a lot of those people... now they are stuck in a monolithic (eg non-distributed) system and dealign with scaling problems. I'n not saying Erlang is always the right answer (I'm a fan of Go at the moment)... just that there's too much hopping-on-the-bandwagon based on seemingly a lack of awareness of the technology that's out there. Imagine if all the effort making node work had been put into existing choices.