I have no trouble understanding the concepts, its the nomenclature that is different. It is the same with Haskell or other niche languages - once you are famili

I have no trouble understanding the concepts, its the nomenclature that is different. It is the same with Haskell or other niche languages - once you are familiar with the terminology then you start to feel comfortable. However, I just consider some things in the world outside of Elixir/Erlang/BEAM to be a bit more common. For example, using Docker with Kubernetes/ECS/etc as a deployment story. Or connecting micro-services using REST/gRPC/GraphQL. Or using queue systems like SQS or Kafka (to be fair, literally yesterday an ElixirConf talk about using Kafka with Elixir was posted). The advantage of BEAM is that you can avoid that stuff in some cases because it is built in to the platform - but that is a double edged sword since now you aren't doing those things. Even if I have used Akka for Actors in Scala/Java/Kotlin, something about the BEAM based languages still feels like I am stepping onto the Galapagos Islands and seeing a ecosystem that has been evolving in its own isolation for decades. Sure, there are birds, but they just don't look like any birds I've seen before.