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No matter how good Elixir is, at some point the hype will reach a point where many people will try it having wild expectations, and will get disappointed. This is just the way hype works :)

If you search for Elixir on HN and sort by popularity, 10 of the top 20 results were submitted during the past 12 months (Which in itself might be just related to an increase in users here on HN, but compare the results to languages like Java or Haskell).

Many of my dev friends with hipsterish inclinations jumped on the Elixir hype train in the past year or so. I really don't see how this is different than past "hype phases" of other technologies.

Oh, sure, there'll be some people who regret it, but the key difference is that it isn't going to run into some of the same problems that plague other new languages because it fundamentally isn't a new language.

It was interesting reading some opinions from older Erlang folks. They are mostly supportive but disliked a few things about Elixir such as reassigning variables which they thought broke immutability.