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Re:Languages on BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine by qaq on Friday January 20, 2017 @10:13PM (#13448556)
There are no big companies behind Elixir so the marketing is pretty much a community thing done by people who like the language.
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Re:Languages on BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine by cthalupa on Saturday January 21, 2017 @01:35PM (#13451367)
Discord is using Elixir, and is pretty large.

In another thread, their CTO claimed they have more users than Slack.

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Re:Languages on BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine by alxndr on Saturday January 21, 2017 @05:24PM (#13452442)
There are big companies using Elixir; I think what qaq meant is that Elixir isn't itself developed by a big company.
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