While I think there is some truth to that regarding the programming paradigm, I always felt the EVM have two big drawbacks, compared to something like Go: 1. R

While I think there is some truth to that regarding the programming paradigm, I always felt the EVM have two big drawbacks, compared to something like Go: 1. Requiring a VM, making deployment more complex. 2. Not being natively compiled, or always having this performance roof for the inner loops. After considering both Erlang/Elixir and Go a lot for my scientific workflow manager, I finally went with Go for these exact reasons.