[namelosw]

IMO BEAM is a better VM than JVM despite the number of libraries.

It provides a more robust, performant and observable platform for Web development. (Technically JVM is faster batch operations but for Web, most Elixir apps win)

More importantly, it's a perfect fit for immutable functional languages. Everything is immutable and proper tail-recursion are provided. Clojure is great but it has several different ways to define state and type, and sometimes I found they're a little bit awkward. With BEAM process, there's no need for language to have constructs for state/reference/async handling, which could makes the language itself more simpler and more compact.