As a shameless plug, there are a lot of interesting perks for a generalist to using Elixir.

- Declarative + functional programming - Highly productive (great frameworks for embedded + web, developer ergonomics, etc) - Great exposure to Actor Model concurrency - Great generic performance (no stop the world gc, strong multicore use via Erlang scheduler + processes, and lots of optimizations based on vm immutability) - Lots and lots of exposure to systems stuff + strong devops tools (built for distribution*, Erlang runtime tools, observer, great logging and telemetry libraries, etc) - Lots of built in services/tools (can use ETS instead of redis for things like auth-checking throughput)