There were a few reasons. I never loved Scala, and I especially didn't like the let's-write-Haskell-in-Scala obsession with static typing that affects half the

There were a few reasons. I never loved Scala, and I especially didn't like the let's-write-Haskell-in-Scala obsession with static typing that affects half the community. The JVM and Akka both have a lot of knobs to tweak, whereas the BEAM seems to have saner defaults. I didn't need rocket fast performance and I didn't need any JVM libraries, but I did like the actor model of concurrency and process supervision, so when it came time to look for greener pastures, Elixir was a solid choice. I've been using it in production just over a year, and it's been excellent.