> We had two viable choices for the new application that needed to be built---Rails and Phoenix. The team to which we were delivering the project had no Elixir

> We had two viable choices for the new application that needed to be built---Rails and Phoenix. The team to which we were delivering the project had no Elixir experience at all, so a choice to build a Phoenix app represented a choice to adopt Elixir. *Laravel and all the other PHP frameworks waving their hands frantically... Hello, Hello!