Languages and runtimes often grow beyond their original scope. And since the introduction of Dirty NIFs to the Erlang VM five years (or so) ago, integrating with native code (which is what powers a lot of data analysis and machine learning tools in high-level languages) has become a real possibility. There is a similar-ish discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35572128
josevalim|2 years ago