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Agree. The language is different. The standard library is different. The runtime is different. The last two quite substantially at that. JavaScript is more like Ruby than Elixir is. I'm tempted to say Go and Jave are more Ruby than Elixir is.

FWIW, I've been using elixir for about a year now, and I think it's fantastic. I still use node & ruby for scripts (which can get complicated, but almost always for one-offs and asynchronous processing), Go for anything I actively want to share memory (though, started using Crystal, can't wait for threads), and OpenResty for any web proxy/middleware stuff. But Elixir is now the lions share for me and I find it fun and productive.