I wish that more people would bring up points like this instead of just insisting that Elixir and Phoenix are "scalable". Both of those points sound appealing.

I wish that more people would bring up points like this instead of just insisting that Elixir and Phoenix are "scalable". Both of those points sound appealing. It's like, okay, so there's the functional programming, the similarities to Ruby, the BEAM VM, the concurrency.... but what does it do for me? They're not exactly selling points on their own because other languages can compete with those things.