I think that most of the useful work is done by the few, the proud, the nutjobs, who aren't going to listen to this advice anyway. You (for a given value of you

I think that most of the useful work is done by the few, the proud, the nutjobs, who aren't going to listen to this advice anyway. You (for a given value of you) don't need to build a product in Elixir, they (for a given value of they) will, and if they stick with it for long enough everyone else can catch wind and begrudgingly add it to the pile. It's the circle of life! I mean, I don't follow that advice at all, and if you don't want to you shouldn't either, but there's definitely a fair argument that it would be "better" for most cases to accomplish your goal with boring technology.