In fact the vast majority of our data processing is in Python but we also have some R and shell scripts. Elixir is great for orchestrating parallel data process

In fact the vast majority of our data processing is in Python but we also have some R and shell scripts. Elixir is great for orchestrating parallel data processing and building reactive UIs showing what's happening in real-time. The Erlang VM has interesting performance and introspection capabilities and Elixir being a younger language its tooling is a lot less messy.