FWIW I think that this is because it was the main selling point of adopting Go instead for many companies. I was at a company 6 years ago that was looking at in

FWIW I think that this is because it was the main selling point of adopting Go instead for many companies. I was at a company 6 years ago that was looking at introducing a language with a better concurrency profile. It was between Elixir and Go. Go ended up winning out because “Google makes it more mainstream”. That was the crux of the decision. Don’t get me wrong, Go has plenty of selling points but there were a lot of supporting articles making that claim. Denouncing Elixir as “not mainstream” is probably just a result of the built in defensiveness from people who argued against it for a while. Elixir’s fantastic. It has made me a much better programmer.