[lucasyvas]

Is any of this needed though? For some use cases yes, but for many no. It's possible the parent has no practical use for these capabilities.

[pdpi]

If you're building a project that actually benefits from Elixir/Erlang's features, you can have a constructive discussion about whether those features justify sacrificing static typing. If you don't actually benefit from those features, "I tried to use a language that's unfit for my purposes and found it unfit for my purposes" is a comment of very limited value.