Elixir is Erlang/BEAM VM, and Phoenix is a small (but awesome) thing in comparison. Elixir has first class access to an incredibly rich (and battled-hardened)

Elixir is Erlang/BEAM VM, and Phoenix is a small (but awesome) thing in comparison. Elixir has first class access to an incredibly rich (and battled-hardened) network/distributed ecosystem... if you need it. I know there are major voip companies who build on it, and of course Discord is famous for what they were able to do efficiently with it. These are all outside the realm of Phoenix. That's not to say Phoenix isn't significant. I think it will definitely be a bridge that pulls Ruby (and the few willing Python) devs over to Elixir. It got me, and I built a successful project in it a few years ago.