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To piggyback on this question: regardless of the merits of each language, do people think that in terms of enterprise adoption and job opportunity Elixir is more interesting than Erlang at this point?

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Per the other comments, if you learn Elixir for professional reasons, you're very likely to at least get to the point you can read Erlang, even if you don't write it fluently. And if someone is hired on who knows Erlang but doesn't know Elixir, I doubt that's going to prove a huge impediment, especially if they have any other scripting language experience. I'd consider the question of Elixir/Erlang to be more a "both-and" sort of thing than an "either-or".

"Enterprise adoption" is still years off, "job opportunity" is just starting to come into its own. But the real reason I'd call Elixir a better place to be right now is the community. The Erlang community is not growing. Elixir's community is.

I've been seeing enough interest in Elixir to justify learning it. It's still in the "Nice to have" section of the job listings, but it's popping up more.

FWIW, I'm enjoying my Elixir experience. I was productive pretty quickly, and I've got some fault-tolerance and concurrency pretty cheap.

When I think "enterprise" I think large companies, and in that regard I think the answer is less clear.

For smaller, more agile shops I'm sure there's more Elixir adoption as people look for alternatives to Ruby.

I've never seen any job statistics, nor do I have any useful anecdata.

We are definitely "entreprise" (1k5 employees, FTSE 250) and all new devs are in Elixir. Coming from mainly php.

But it is also following a strategic turn and an organisational change.

Toyota, Comcast, Sky, Adobe,Square Enix are the first "entreprise" names that come to my mind for elixir

Out of curiosity sake, Do you mind sharing what UK company you're with?

Ascential plc

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