[anko]

> The biggest problem with Erlang is that hardly anything out there needs this level of concurrency and robustness in a single system - in the new world of microservices and serverless architectures there are other ways to cope with scaling.

I wondered about this myself before I started using Elixir. In practice, it turns out when it's cheap to make things concurrent more services take advantage of this feature.

Tests and the elixir compiler are extremely fast because of this, and it makes the whole development experience better.

Because the primitives are so simple, people experiment more which makes better software. Nobody would come up with phoenix live view for Play framework in their spare time because play framework is so overly complicated.