I don't understand this argument. Elixir is still its own distinct thing, the fact that it compiles to BEAM byte code is secondary in assessing whether it is cu

I don't understand this argument. Elixir is still its own distinct thing, the fact that it compiles to BEAM byte code is secondary in assessing whether it is currently in a hype cycle or not. Just like Clojure, Eta, Scala, jErlang or the myriad of other languages that run on top of the JVM can be hyped independently of the JVM or Java. Erlang did get the same amount of hype, probably multiple times in the past 20 years. So did many, if not most reasonably well-known languages, programming paradigms, architectural solutions, databases, frameworks and so on. I do not make any judgement about the merits or maturity of Elixir itself. Elixir is perfectly fine. As developers we should have a healthy dose of skepticism when it comes to blog posts that claim 10x speed improvements with technology X. Was it just the rewrite? Does your use case match mine? And so on... In short: Everything is a trade off, and there is no silver-bullet.