It's classic shoulders of giants. Elixir is built on Erlang, a 30 year old language/system/community, and a vast array of knowledge on how to do functional/conc

It's classic shoulders of giants. Elixir is built on Erlang, a 30 year old language/system/community, and a vast array of knowledge on how to do functional/concurrent/systems programming. Web apps were a completely different beast as little as three or four years ago. Despite the incredible progress of the last few years we still don't know the best way to go about architecting SPAs, of course things are going to be a little hairy.