Elixir is niche. It's number 48 in Tiobe, in Redmonk it's not in the top 20, in Stackoverflow yearly surveys it dropped out of the list (too little usage). You

Elixir is niche. It's number 48 in Tiobe, in Redmonk it's not in the top 20, in Stackoverflow yearly surveys it dropped out of the list (too little usage). You mean to tell me a programming language not in the top 40 isn't niche? Hey I'm a Rubyist and I acknowledge the fact Ruby is niche (in some cities/countries you will have difficulty getting a Ruby job), yet even Ruby is way more popular than Elixir.