I think part of it might be because it has a very ruby friendly syntax. So you end up with a bunch of ruby refugees trying it and they are shocked at how quick

I think part of it might be because it has a very ruby friendly syntax. So you end up with a bunch of ruby refugees trying it and they are shocked at how quick it is and how easy concurrency is compared to ruby so they fall in love. In reality elixir is not really fast it’s just ruby is shockingly slow. But elixir does have a nice concurrency story. There is no denying that.