[pawelduda]

I was a strong Elixir shill for years. I still use it in personal projects (it's very fun) but commercially it never replaced Ruby for me. Here's my quick take:

1) There wasn't large enough gap from typical business perspective that needed to be filled by Elixir.

2) No really big company marketed Elixir. People start shoving microservices/Kubernetes/whatever new tech into any simplest app because Facebook does it. Had it been different, I believe Elixir would explode in popularity.

People here mention that Elixir means higher pay for devs but it was never the case for me. For every Phoenix role there were 5 better paid RoR/Fullstack ones. If I've proven empirically that I can provide value with RoR, why switch? I can derive joy from it by using it on my own project, and from the fact that it's much more fun using any lang on hobby projects than commercial ones.