Thanks for the comprehensive reply! I guess I better experiment more with mnesia before really using it for anything serious. Or find alternatives. We had Redi

Thanks for the comprehensive reply! I guess I better experiment more with mnesia before really using it for anything serious. Or find alternatives. We had Redis before but that experience turned out just awful so we got rid of it. As for the community, I think Elixir is where it's at nowadays. There is, unsurprisingly, a very strong focus on webby stuff with Elixir, and a lot of the things you would build with it are just easy. Like a multi-machine chat server. If I started to build a new distributed chat server today, Elixir would still be the easiest way to go, despite eventually likely not being the most performant solution out there. Discord likewise seems happy with their choice for this particular use case, only supplementing it with the likes of Rust for specific problems in their domain. I mean you yourself built a lot of the Erlang's/BEAM's logic from the scratch on Go just to be able to use it there. I'm expecting I'd end up in a similar alley with Rust/Haskell/take your pick if I was attacking the problems where Elixir has all the facilities already set up and battle tested.