[rubiquity]

Lots of Bitcoin exchanges use Erlang/Elixir.

But really any project using Erlang can and probably will add some Elixir to its code base at some point. The languages complete interop between each other by way of sharing BEAM byte code.

[sjtgraham]

That's not the greatest of endorsements to be honest.

[rubiquity]

The scale at which Bitcoin exchanges operate at is pretty impressive. Dismissing that due to Mt Gox's poor security is ridiculous. Plus, I don't think the exchanges you're thinking of used Erlang/Elixir.

[sjtgraham]

I did not mention MtGox.

[hackerboos]

What exchanges use elixir?

[lectrick]

Based on my limited googling, at least Bex.io

http://bex.io/faqs

An industry tends to congeal around a single technology for implementation (for example, Python in bioinformatics), so if bitcoin exchanges will start using Elixir, that is interesting

[lectrick]

Why not? New things tend to use new tools, so it's understandable.

We're not talking about MtGox here, which incidentally, was written in ::cue disdaining programmer voice:: PHP ::end cue::

[davidw]

Languages take a while to get traction. Sometimes a long while.

[sjtgraham]

I'm a big fan of Elixir. I really love it and really hope it does get traction, because I would like to be paid to write software using it.