I enjoy Elixir tremendously, but usually I’m forced to use another language (Python) due to popularity, not technical merits. It’s hard to sell anything that’s

I enjoy Elixir tremendously, but usually I’m forced to use another language (Python) due to popularity, not technical merits. It’s hard to sell anything that’s not in the TIOBE top 10. To answer your comment more directly though, for many systems the benefits of excellent concurrency, monitorability, and fault tolerance can outweigh those of a strong type system or raw performance. It really depends what you’re doing, and how your team likes to work. No such thing as a silver bullet and all that.