> A lot of libraries are abandoned or on life-support - just do a random search on rubygems and check release dates. Every language has this problem. Even Eli

> A lot of libraries are abandoned or on life-support - just do a random search on rubygems and check release dates. Every language has this problem. Even Elixir. The sole maintainer of the most popular AWS library isn't using AWS anymore so he stopped maintaining the package. He tried to give the project to another maintainer but after months of asking, no one wanted to take over the project. There's also lots of Elixir libs where it looks like some package author was super gung-ho about making something and then the repo hasn't been touched in 4 years. I see the same thing in Python too but one big difference is, with Python (and Ruby and Go and PHP) you often have officially supported libraries for things like AWS, Stripe and other important / popular services. With Elixir, you'll be on the hook for writing your own clients for most services. I've asked Stripe a few times if they will add an Elixir client officially but they always give the same response of it's not worth it because there's not enough demand. I want Elixir to get more popular but it's a very sketchy world outside of a few Elixir packages that are either developed / maintained by the core team, or have a huge following because it's solving a problem that pretty much everyone has. Basically you need to be prepared to develop libraries and a lot of glue code yourself to get started before solving your "real" business logic.