[SZJX]

I wonder what you see that Elixir doesn't fix. Syntax-wise, Elixir definitely makes writing the code a much much more pleasant and enjoyable experience. And I would say the package ecosystem has been great and really promising so far. I guess the biggest complaint against BEAM would still be its performance and lack of easy AOT compilation, as you wrote there. However, the dynamic nature of Erlang/Elixir makes the development process much easier and more rapid in many cases. Also, compared with most of the dynamic languages that I've used so far, it's amazingly easy to maintain and bug-free. Of course you can always pine for the one perfect language, but PL design is always a process of making tradeoffs, and IMO Erlang/Elixir already satisfies the vast majority of use cases while being extremely enjoyable to work with. There are also some attempts to develop statically typed languages targeting the BEAM though the message passing between actors makes it not that easy.