+1! You bring up some excellent points, I think. For example, Elixir is based on decades of Erlang success, and a decade of Ruby and Rails success. I've been

+1! You bring up some excellent points, I think. For example, Elixir is based on decades of Erlang success, and a decade of Ruby and Rails success. I've been using it as the backend to a mobile app for about a year now, and it has far exceeded my expectations in learning curve, ease of writing concurrent code, maintainability, scalability, and performance. I also agree with you regarding Ruby/Rails. Ruby and Rails are both elegant technologies, and have had a significant influence on how we write web applications today. You cannot take those contributions away, regardless of how many "better" languages come out. I think both Ruby and Elixir have their strengths and weaknesses, but that doesn't mean either is bad. Saying so would be like trashing a screwdriver because it isn't very good at driving nails.