There is no easy way around the chance that some project dies. While José and I pointed that it is quite easy to convert the AST produced by Elixir back to Erl

There is no easy way around the chance that some project dies. While José and I pointed that it is quite easy to convert the AST produced by Elixir back to Erlang source (erl_pp?), it might not be the best workaround for the unlikely death of the project. Death doesn't meant the compiler stops compiling :)