> Case in point, LFE (Lisp Flavored Erlang) was created by one of the original designers of Erlang, Robert Virding, has great support for a small FOSS project,

> Case in point, LFE (Lisp Flavored Erlang) was created by one of the original designers of Erlang, Robert Virding, has great support for a small FOSS project, true macros LFE had no documentation, no tools, no learning resources for a really long time. Compare that to Elixir that focused on those aspects since day one. Furthermore, LFE has reached 1.0 only recently, almost 1.5 years after Elixir, and that has an impact on industry adoption. LFE also was, for a long time, literally Lisp-flavored Erlang while Elixir attempted from the beginning to bring its own abstractions such as protocols, collections, Unicode support, UTF-8 strings, and they are still pushing it forward: http://elixir-lang.org/blog/2016/07/14/announcing-genstage/ http://elixir-lang.org/blog/2016/07/14/announcing-genstage/ So I think you are selling both languages short. There is much more happening in Elixir besides the "popularity of Ruby" and there is a lot of potential in LFE now that they are focusing on being more than a "lispy" Erlang.