No, but Erlang is listed among the most-loved, most-wanted, and highest-paying technologies.
> there are hardly any developers to be found and creating an application in Elixir is just a not a business decision. It's a fun decision.
WhatsApp is a famous success for Erlang. Cisco is using it broadly as well. A large portion of the phone system runs on Erlang because of its technical advantages. Bleacher Report went from 150 servers to 5 by switching from Ruby to Elixir, and their whole content delivery model is enabled by using Elixir, since most of their stuff is personalized and caching doesn't really work.
Elixir is basically "friendlier Erlang"; all the advantages of the BEAM are there. Elixir and Erlang devs together attend conferences like Code BEAM. You could probably hire Erlang devs to do write Elixir, and if you had an Elixir app and Elixir died, you could switch to Erlang.
I think there are some good business reasons to use Elixir. Of course, I'm a dev who has spent significant time learning it, which makes me somewhat biased. But I did give it some thought before jumping in.
No, but Erlang is listed among the most-loved, most-wanted, and highest-paying technologies.
> there are hardly any developers to be found and creating an application in Elixir is just a not a business decision. It's a fun decision.
WhatsApp is a famous success for Erlang. Cisco is using it broadly as well. A large portion of the phone system runs on Erlang because of its technical advantages. Bleacher Report went from 150 servers to 5 by switching from Ruby to Elixir, and their whole content delivery model is enabled by using Elixir, since most of their stuff is personalized and caching doesn't really work.
Elixir is basically "friendlier Erlang"; all the advantages of the BEAM are there. Elixir and Erlang devs together attend conferences like Code BEAM. You could probably hire Erlang devs to do write Elixir, and if you had an Elixir app and Elixir died, you could switch to Erlang.
I think there are some good business reasons to use Elixir. Of course, I'm a dev who has spent significant time learning it, which makes me somewhat biased. But I did give it some thought before jumping in.