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Comparing Elixir and Go is reasonable, but I don't think Elixir and Rust have much overlap in the types of projects you would choose them for.

In fact the opposite is true! Rust is a pretty popular choice for writing native code (NIFs) for Elixir. (Similar to Ruby FFI).

Discord especially has several real world use cases where they've implemented native code in Rust.

Lots of Golang interest 5 years before Golang existed!

Including the term "Go" is very misleading: Go also refers to a game. That might be why there was interest before the language was a thing.

Just in case somebody didn't know that