It doesn't make sense for certain kinds of languages. But Elixir and Erlang unique in a way that languages like Python, Ruby, etc. are not. A semi-mainstream

It doesn't make sense for certain kinds of languages. But Elixir and Erlang unique in a way that languages like Python, Ruby, etc. are not. A semi-mainstream BEAM language with static typing would be a huge boon. For those of us who have problems that BEAM fits really well, it's like saying Typescript doesn't matter because other statically typed languages exist. Which is really missing the point.