A bit like lisp the metaprogramming aspect of elixir allows for really rapid domain customization with out needing to have your changes approved by the core tea

A bit like lisp the metaprogramming aspect of elixir allows for really rapid domain customization with out needing to have your changes approved by the core team. I think this on top of interop with existing erlang libraries and the scalability of the erlang vm model put elixir in a really good position to have presence if not in web dev overall then atleast in areas that in the past would have been grudgingly done using erlang instead of scala or whatever for scale reasons.