[fredliu]

Have been a fan of Elixir and its ecosystem for web dev. However, I haven't wrapped my head around the core value proposition behind Elixir's recent "pivot" to AI/numeric computing. Can someone shed more light on "why Elixir" for AI/numeric computing?

[victorbjorklund]

It shouldn't be seen as pivot to AI or trying to compete with say Python. It probably more should be seen as letting existing elixir developers/projects use AI in the projects without having to bring in another language like python. Thus avoiding the need to learn python / dealing with the complexities of having multiple languages in your app.

[pmarreck]

Anyone who has fallen in love with Ruby or Elixir but who knows enough Python to want to avoid it, is disappointed that Python got "picked" as the ML scripting language (or the bioinformatics scripting language, but I digress). I'm glad Elixir chose to go this route, as it's much more deserving of this role IMHO.

[billchristian]

This recent Elixir Conf video by Chris Grainger does an excellent job articulating the benefits he saw in switching to a Elixir-based AI stack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Nr4dNu6hI