There is a fantastic talk by Fred Herbert (of Heroku and Learn You Some Erlang fame) that discusses this exact situation in the Erlang community [0]. Without an

There is a fantastic talk by Fred Herbert (of Heroku and Learn You Some Erlang fame) that discusses this exact situation in the Erlang community [0]. Without an accessible ecosystem, useful tooling, a powerful packaging system, or a community sensitive to newcomers what do you have? Erlang is an amazing platform with a community full of very experienced and wisened developers–but elixir widened the appeal. [0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z28SDd9bXcE https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z28SDd9bXcE