Discord uses it for message passing. Other uses where Erlang shines are a great fit for Elixir too: WhatsApp, Goldman Sachs uses Erlang for Trading, Heroku's r

Discord uses it for message passing. Other uses where Erlang shines are a great fit for Elixir too: WhatsApp, Goldman Sachs uses Erlang for Trading, Heroku's routing mesh, ... I think with Nerves, Elixir fits well on embedded platforms. Its supervision trees make it easier to create fault tolerant systems, and the actor model is great for concurrency.