A personal project or small company, no. At small scale the only advantage is has is the concurrency primitives and for that I'd use a BEAM language. But the v

A personal project or small company, no. At small scale the only advantage is has is the concurrency primitives and for that I'd use a BEAM language. But the verbosity and "one way to do it" is a plus for large enough teams. There's no need to decipher someone else's code when you come in to it. The way they did it is the way you'd do it, because there's just one way to do it. Verbosity is less important for reading code than writing it, and on big projects you do a lot of reading.