[verttii]

It really depends where you're coming from. If you're from the enterprise world I'd expect you'll find the ecosystem limited for anything else than web related, maybe even for enterprise web integrations. If you're coming from something even more niche (for web) like Haskell you'll think the ecosystem is flourishing.

Libraries are generally of good quality and reasonably well documented. The community is very energetic and supportive. Moreover, there's an exceptional range of libraries and solutions available for certain problem domains in which the Erlang platform excels such as distributed concurrency and soft real-time applications in general.

If the problems you work on fall outside of the web sphere Elixir is not a good fit generally.

[elcritch]

I can’t agree about the "just web dev" part. After using Elixir extensively in embedded devices it’s been fantastic. Some libraries are lacking, especially scientific. Still I find the time implementing say, polynomial curve fitting, to be more than compensated for by the robustness of the architecture and avoiding the quagmire of OOP code. It’s actually kind of fun to me using Elixir/BEAM for data processing.

[verttii]

Fair enough, I should've put it more general like "distributed computing". Something that does networking stuff and prioritizes low latency instead of high throughput.

[rishav_sharan]

I would love to use Elixir for simple non-demanding 2d games. I love the language syntax and i think it will work great for these use cases. Unfortunately, Elixir ecosystem seems to be all about webdev only.