To me, there's an interesting point here. Elixir has the advantage of targeting a VM built for a language semantically similar to Elixir; things that have frust

To me, there's an interesting point here. Elixir has the advantage of targeting a VM built for a language semantically similar to Elixir; things that have frustrating limitations in JVM functional languages like Scala and Clojure (eg, tail calls) just work on BEAM. Interop, naturally, is also much smoother. Want to call out to some Erlang code? Fine - that'll be ':module_name' instead of 'ModuleName'. On the other hand, the Java/JVM ecosystem is much larger, so there's a serious trade-off there.