4 ms·

You forgot: - good marketing

• moosingin3space 10y ago
  And that's not a bad thing -- it means the core team and users of the language are excited about it, which can be a good thing.
• qaq 10y ago
  There are no big companies behind Elixir so the marketing is pretty much a community thing done by people who like the language.
  • cthalupa 10y ago
    Discord is using Elixir, and is pretty large. In another thread, their CTO claimed they have more users than Slack.
    • alxndr 10y ago
      There are big companies using Elixir; I think what qaq meant is that Elixir isn't itself developed by a big company.