At this stage, I think most managers are aware of Elixir and its ecosystem. I’ve had many encounters where they also express love for the language. But, there is always the “but” of the lack of a reasonably sized workforce to justify the risk of adopting the language.
Well, I adopted Elixir 5 years ago for my startup and we suffered greatly. For the past 2 years I’ve been working in a company with 100+ developers from all around the world and we are just 2 Elixir developers, for a very specific project.
For many other recent projects, I always try to bring Elixir to the table and the answers are almost always the same: “Elixir and Phoenix are a perfect fit for the project, but we wouldn’t have enough developers (or not even a single developer to maintain the project in case I leave), so let’s do it in Kotlin/.NET”. I had to learn Kotlin in order to stay relevant inside the company - at least the knowledge is transferrable, but of course I’d love to keep doing Elixir.
On the other hand, I agree with you that bringing exposure to the ecosystem in a survey like this could be an important stage of gathering the attention of developers (not managers).
