[college_physics]

elixir is a newcomer in the web framework space. if one must be risk-averse (for whatever reason: limited resources, limited time, other more critical challenges to focus on) then it makes sense not stake the house and attempt "mission critical" stuff on a new platform or stack that is still not quite mature

the thing to keep in mind, though, is that being permanently risk averse means at some point one might become obsolete. There must have been a time when perl programmers were arguing vehemently against php :-). Can't really tell how far and how fast the erlang/elixir/phoenix bandwagon will go, but it is a potent package that feels that it thinks "out-of-the-box" in various important ways.