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From this https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/ Brex, Podium, PagerDuty use Elixir. They are in top YC companies, not a surprise.

Do you think they got big because they use it or do they use it because they're big?

Pre-optimization is the root of all evil, my dude.

@runj__ You should read this blog post by Brex founder. He really says how Elixir suited well to the problem they were trying to solve https://medium.com/brexeng/why-brex-chose-elixir-fe1a4f31319...

In the end they picked it because they already knew it.

That's still a really good reason to pick a technology right? Especially if speed to market is one of your goals.

And that's the reason why most people chose Java(Script)

Discord used Elixir from the start

Thanks for pointing those out. I would really like to switch to Elixir in my day job.