> I honestly don't understand why Elixir and the Erlang/BEAM ecosystem haven't taken over the software world more completely I thought similar things in 2016 w

> I honestly don't understand why Elixir and the Erlang/BEAM ecosystem haven't taken over the software world more completely I thought similar things in 2016 when I started learning Elixir and Phoenix but after 2 years, building multiple apps, dabbling with it for years afterwards (up until about last year) and giving it everything I had (and more). It wasn't for me. The conclusion I came to was Elixir makes certain things that are hard in other languages easier and there's certain things in other languages that are simple but much different in Elixir. For the apps I build (typical web apps like GitHub, etc.) I found that I ran into more scenarios where Elixir as a language made it harder for me to build the things I wanted. For things that Elixir made easier, other languages have "good enough" solutions. If the goal of all of this is to build things to provide value for others, choosing a stack with a larger ecosystem of tools and community support wins in my book when you've reached the point of "good enough" in other things. Responding back in <= 100ms for the p95 case is "good enough" and most web tech stacks can do this without a huge amount of server costs or extra effort if you're talking about million dollar business sized apps where you might be dealing with a few hundred thousand visitors a month for a typical SAAS app. Things like Hotwire[0] are also tech stack agnostic. You can build really nice feeling apps with minimal effort. I spent about a week upgrading one of my apps to use it while learning as I went and it made a massive difference. Conceptually it was low effort to understand and didn't require rewriting everything. That has been the polar opposite experience I've had when I used LiveView. [0]: https://hotwired.dev/ https://hotwired.dev/