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> I have had Elixir teams but there is a big big big difference between someone who has done a Phoenix tutorial and someone who understands supervisor trees and genservers.

Most of the "scary" parts of the BEAM aren't surfaced when using Phoenix. I don't think you are being terribly honest here. Working with Elixir/Phoenix is no more difficult from a academic aspect than working in Python/Django or gasp JS/Typscript/(Front-end framework du jour.)

> There are much better languages than Elixir for communicating intention in programs in a way that a junior dev can come in and understand. Especially if you are working with engineers in foreign countries with language barriers.

If you say something like Go or Python. I'm going to scream, lol. It's just isn't true. Phoenix was voted the most loved web framework in stack overflow's 2022 survey, Elixir was voted second most love language after Rust. A large percentage of the survey takers only had 1-3 years of experience.