[vvpan]

I feel like Elixir has a split personality: on the one hand you have libraries for anybody to use out-of-the-box with their specialty syntax and all (Phoenix, et. al.) but on the other hand Erlang/BEAM are heavy-weight backend development tools, things that I would imagine most people do not want to or would not get into. This came up on Elixir Reddit the other day, somebody was lamenting how their job uses Elixir, but a handful of libraries without getting into the OTP weeds, and the replies were: "why do you care if it works?". But I understand where the poster came from, I do not particularly care for Phoenix or Liveview, they are tangentially related to what I would like to do with the language, which is write robust backend services with minimal technical overhead. I am sure Phoenix is nice but and I hope to use it one day but it is not the selling point to me.