I can't speak for shrugger, but when I see the manpower invested in improving Java, .Net, JavaScript, Go, LLVM runtimes/compilers, I'm personally wondering if B

I can't speak for shrugger, but when I see the manpower invested in improving Java, .Net, JavaScript, Go, LLVM runtimes/compilers, I'm personally wondering if BEAM will be able to follow. We are starting to see languages like Python fade away because of that, when fast execution starts to matter.