The community seems stronger than ever. What was your experience of its fading away like? Projects like this don’t give the impression of a language falling by the wayside. People tend to fall in love with Elixir. You never forget falling in love.
Maybe there are better metrics to gage momentum.
In other words, many of the developers who want to be working with Elixir are working with Elixir, and are quite happy doing so.