I did erlang programming for about a year before switching to elixir for the last 3 years. I have a large server cluster serving 275k sensor devices averaging o

I did erlang programming for about a year before switching to elixir for the last 3 years. I have a large server cluster serving 275k sensor devices averaging one report per minute containing 1 to 4 readings (temp, humidity, rainfall, wind speed, heading, etc.) calculating daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, hourly, and smaller high/low/average/tally aggregates and allowing users to setup complex alerts against these values. It would have take me a huge amount longer to write the same in erlang. The difference between readability and usability of Elixir and Erlang syntax is night and day, especially as someone coming from 20 years of working with imperative languages. I can feel comfortable handing out small tasks to a lay developer in elixir and getting back a response pretty quickly, it has a much easier on boarding. It has it's flaws of course. It's much easier to write programs that will crash in elixir, etc. but that concession with a more approachable syntax and methodology coupled with the benefits of OTP and Beam seems like a much more compelling sell than pure erlang.