The reason Elixir pulls people from Ruby is the language and community emphasis on developer productivity IMO. It’s the one thing that Ruby excels at so well i

The reason Elixir pulls people from Ruby is the language and community emphasis on developer productivity IMO. It’s the one thing that Ruby excels at so well it justifies using Ruby in the face of plenty of other “fast” options. Dev time and time to market are still infinitely more important than hosting costs unless you are already at scale. What Elixir brings to the table is the productivity and time to market with an architecture that scales for most every scenario experienced in server side dev aside from heavy math. And that architecture is designed in a way that makes maintainability a first class citizen because of the lack of long term dependency entanglement growth.