Thanks for taking the time to reply here, Jose. Elixir is definitely a very impressive language and as a former PL student, I am definitely a huge fan of your work.

That said, if I were looking into a BEAM language in the future - and after this thread I am inspired to try again - I would probably be more inclined to go with Erlang. For the same reason that Java is probably an easier sell than Scala.

However, I am most likely not your target audience. I am neither an existing Erlang user nor a Ruby user (nor even a Node user).