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What kind of problems are people using Elixir to solve in production? My impression is it’s mainly useful for highly networked applications with real-time features (i.e. chat), but it seems like for most applications you’d be better off picking rails or nodejs for the community/ecosystem.

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I dislike coding in javascript for large project. The language was originally for small stuff.

NodeJS bought it to backend and the language itself weren't meant for it. Since then ECMA5 and stuff tried to fix these shortcomings. But you can't expect me to love javascript's weakly type versus elixir or python's strong type (strong not static, as in it doesn't implicitly type convert stuff like javascript). It's a nightmare and concurrency model in NodeJS in my opinion is subpar compare to Elixir's.

> for most applications you’d be better off picking rails or nodejs for the community/ecosystem

Only to find out they do not scale very well after your application is mature and used by a growing number of clients.

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