[weatherlight]

"A false dilemma, also referred to as false dichotomy or false binary, is an informal fallacy based on a premise that erroneously limits what options are available. The source of the fallacy lies not in an invalid form of inference but in a false premise. This premise has the form of a disjunctive claim: it asserts that one among a number of alternatives must be true. This disjunction is problematic because it oversimplifies the choice by excluding viable alternatives, presenting the viewer with only two absolute choices when in fact, there could be many."

1) There's plenty of Elixir engineers, and most of them specialize in web development or a domain thats web dev adjacent. Python is used for everything, with loose conventions on how to program in each domain.

2) Rust maybe faster than Elixir... but what about things like concurrency across multiple nodes and fault tolerance. Fearless concurrency, etc. also, it's really not that hard to create NIFs in Rust. It's really hard to do the above in Rust.

2.a) for most kinds of developement where both rust, python, and elixir could be used to solve a problem (web dev/data science)..... speed is probably not something you are worrying about.