I don’t disagree, and that’s actually why I don’t feel this thread is very useful.
When I started working in my current position I was tasked with looking for an alternative to the tech stack (LAMP) for our web apps. I did not want to go on with the p, I hate it, irrationally. I’ve considered a few languages including ocaml, haskell, scala, rust, erlang, elixir. For each of those I’ve evaluated the costs and benefits for my use case and settled on elixir although there are things I don’t like here either (eg: lack of static typing, syntax, variable shadowing by default and pin operator…).
I’m not concerned because it’s niche. The beam is not.
What I’m trying to express is that companies/individuals may have valid reasons to ditch Elixir/erlang, but these won’t necessarily be reproducible.
Also, it’s fairly easy to interact with the outside world with nifs, ports, c nodes, Java nodes, or message queues
Of course you wouldn’t write a cli unless in elixir unless you had to, nor a desktop app (although observer and wings3d would be counter examples).
