Elixir uses functional programming and its excellent for web development and whenever you want a fault tolerant system. You also don't need to throw out all th

Elixir uses functional programming and its excellent for web development and whenever you want a fault tolerant system. You also don't need to throw out all the good features of the other styles, as parts of functional programming are becoming more and more common in "regular" languages too. Rust uses functional patterns in many cases for instance. And you can also write Lisp in an OO or imperative style if you want, it's no Haskell.