Erlang is great and so is Elixir but node serves a different purpose which really amounts to many different purposes of which none include things like building

Erlang is great and so is Elixir but node serves a different purpose which really amounts to many different purposes of which none include things like building massive real-time and fault-tolerant messaging services (you could still use node and make it work but it certainly would be a suboptimal choice for that).