[mr_luc]

Wow, rvirding! Thank you for everything. Distributed software is actually a pleasure to write thanks in large part to your the many years of work.

The rocket analogy is a good one, too. What Erlang accomplishes is massive, and Elixir uses and benefits from all of it.

I don't want to downplay what Elixir accomplishes, either ... to use a SpaceX analogy, Elixir and its ecosystem are like the guidance systems and deployable struts that let you land rockets repeatably on a barge in the middle of the ocean. It uses macros to make solving problems with rockets easier and more widespread, and maybe it also increases our ambition because of it. (I'm thinking about projects like phoenix_pubsub especially Tracker, ecto, the 1.4 registry, etc).