I don’t see why Plugins would be an issue. BEAM got Hot Reloading and we can create new modules etc. So I don’t see why it would be hard to have plugins that are read in as new modules. The way plugins work and are designed would probably be a bit different since Elixir is a functional language etc.
I think the issue isn’t technical but rather that it would be almost impossible to compete with WP with thousands of plugins and themes since an elixir version would have a lot less. And most users won’t care about whether it is Elixir or PHP.
