Elixir was an amazing bridge between two language populations that would have died out. Ruby and Erlang. It gave Erlang a huge immigrant population that frankl

Elixir was an amazing bridge between two language populations that would have died out. Ruby and Erlang. It gave Erlang a huge immigrant population that frankly gentrified Erlang's 80s nerd vibe to a 2005 hipster aesthetic updated to 2015. 9/10 programmers writing code that runs on the Erlang VM are writing in Elixir. It also gave Ruby folks that faced the contraction of Rails as the startup juggernaut that it was, a place to go, and a runtime that enabled massive web scale (non-ironic). These folks had already hit these problems in their previous jobs, so the realworld experience of the folks that showed up was high. All of this adds up to a great outcome for Erlang, Elixir and the Ruby programmers.