It's all relative. Plenty people come from Node, Ruby, and Python. Coming from the Go! world, I view Elixir is trade of speed for OTP out the box niceness. But

It's all relative. Plenty people come from Node, Ruby, and Python. Coming from the Go! world, I view Elixir is trade of speed for OTP out the box niceness. But comparing Elixir to Node, then you're just gaining speed and stability. And it keeps going -- I very frequently see Go criticized for slowness by C, C++, and Rust developers. It is all about the usecase, which is why I find this topic so interesting. It's one of the few situations Elixir mid-level speed is actually a real world problem.