In my experience the opposite is true. I've been able to introduce the BEAM in a large company (where I work) but the barrier has been they don't know it, they

In my experience the opposite is true. I've been able to introduce the BEAM in a large company (where I work) but the barrier has been they don't know it, they know very well the JVM and they don't care about the language if it can produce a runnable jar. I would really use the JVM more if I could program it in Elixir.