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Elixir has releases, so deployment is not really that hard whether or not you use containers.

And the beam networking stack is quite good, which is unsurprising given it's been in slowly evolving use for 30 years now.

In go you just don't get stuff like "trivially cleaning up associated resources with zero lines of code when your socket gets early terminated by the client or a backhoe cuts the network in to the data center"