I've been writing Python code since the mid 90s. I've also been writing Elixir code for about seven years now and work at a company that has a data science elem

I've been writing Python code since the mid 90s. I've also been writing Elixir code for about seven years now and work at a company that has a data science element to it. We write all our code in Elixir and it is great, in my opinion. I agree that Python has a more mature set of libraries for this sort of thing, but OTP provides some useful distributed features that would be difficult to implement in Python. I also think writing code in Elixir is more productive due to things like pattern-matching, Lisp-style macros, and a lack of OOP.