[pmarreck]

> and it's insane to me that it doesn't have more adoption yet in big tech companies.

elixir (and winter) is coming

> My best theory is that engineers in top engineering companies are actually not the best engineers but simply career engineers that learn one skill (python/java/C++) and then explain to every employer that this technology is the best for the problem they have, over and over again.

you conflated "top" with "large".