A fintech that I am aware of chose Elixir and is a complete shitshow, they're trying to move away from it after being established with it.
Can't hire for it, can't refactor the code at scale, etc.
Be careful with what you read, newer languages are usually trying to sell themselves where established languages have happy people not trying to sell it, or, resume driven developers trying to sell it as bad.
Re:The Future of Clojure
by danielscrubs on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:23AM
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New languages have green field projects by its very nature feeding the hype.
I have an enterprise client right now sitting on 1.5M java 1M SQL 1.5M XML for a single government system that mostly does not function at all, it just gets passed from contractor to contractor, each one sucking down a hundred million dollars before tossing the hot potato. Thanks for the money, Java!