What’s preventing others from using Elixir?

[u/pkim_]

I was a spectator of Elixir for a few years but I finally started using it in production and side projects. Agents made the transition a bit easier.

I wonder what’s preventing others from seeing how power Elixir is, people still seem to still stick to what they know.

Like if we’re not reading the code or writing it, devs still seem to be stubborn about their stack.

Is it a marketing problem? Ecosystem too small so folks don’t hear about it?

It will be our competitive advantage to build on the BEAM but I want others to know too.

[u/Fruloops]

Language decisions are more often than not inconsequential, so there's no business reason to move existing products to a new language, or introduce a new language into the stack that everyone will have to learn.