I don't know why, because I don't think they are all that similar, but I'm often asked to defend my choice of using Elixir professionally vs. Go. From the arti

I don't know why, because I don't think they are all that similar, but I'm often asked to defend my choice of using Elixir professionally vs. Go. From the article, this is one of the big reasons I chose Elixir over Go: "Go’s goroutines are neither memory-isolated nor are they guaranteed to yield after a certain amount of time. Certain types of library operations in Go (e.g. syscalls) will automatically yield the thread, but there are cases where a long-running computation could prevent yielding." goroutines also take up about 10 times the memory.