The only thing I don't like about Elixir is the fact that it doesn't come default on most distros so to use it even for scripting I need to pull strings to get

The only thing I don't like about Elixir is the fact that it doesn't come default on most distros so to use it even for scripting I need to pull strings to get it approved. Otherwise Elixir would replace Ruby for me wholesale The comparisons to Ruby are a bit superficial. Having written and then torn apart highly abstracted code in Elixir, I would always try to keep my code as low abstraction as possible in Elixir which I need not really do in Ruby. Otherwise I find debugging concurrency problems very difficult (and yes, you can still create many concurrency problems in Elixir). If you are doing single-threaded stuff, there is almost no reason to use Elixir. I do like Phoenix better than Rails, but only marginally