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Elixir usually receives this much praise, so it's not unusual. Elixir (and Phoenix) are really great. Phoenix is probably my favorite backend framework I've ever used - and I've used a lot. And the community is wonderful.

Now, before I sound too much like Trump, there are some downsides, as always. It is a dynamic language, which can be a downside for some. (Type-checking is possible though.) It's not that fast with pure number-crunching, so it's best for distributed, networked applications. The syntax isn't always quite as nice as Ruby. And the language is relatively complex (more than Go, much less than Ruby/PHP/Scala).