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Elixir _is_ the correct answer. Not sure what you mean by "narrow focus" - it is as general purpose as anything. Only thing holding me back from fully moving from Python to Elixir is that the ecosystem isn't mature enough yet.

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I like Elixir, but the ecosystem has years of catching up to be anywhere close to Python. Not just libraries but experienced developers. There's also a danger it might end up like Ruby - basically the support system for a web framework.

Elixir is nice, but I hardly think it compares to Python due to the fact that you are required to hand back control from a native call approximately every half second or so or else you will screw the internal scheduler on the ErlangVM.

Would you do Bitcoin mining or 3D games with Elixir?

http://tednaleid.github.io/intro-to-elixir/?full#60

I think use-cases like that are included when you say general purpose.

Let's put it this way: there is nothing I would do in Python, that I wouldn't do in Elixir. For all intents and purposes, that's general purpose.

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