The problem is that BEAM wasn't built to excel at number crunching or doing computationally expensive work. A good explanation here https://stackoverflow.com/q

The problem is that BEAM wasn't built to excel at number crunching or doing computationally expensive work. A good explanation here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11214336/what-makes-erlang-unsuitable-for-computationally-expensive-work https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11214336/what-makes-erla... But I've been reading a lot about this topic too. There are a lot of people out there doing exploratory work to see if Elixir can be a viable solution.