> filed an issue because our test suite didn’t pass on Itanium lol

For the non low-level programmers in the bowels of memory allocators among us, why is this a "lol"?

"its content" indeed.

> Elixir has been quite easy to set up, configure and deploy, at least for the last 5-6 years.

One of your sibling commenters noted...

> I've basically found it [Elixir] the only language more difficult than python to set up an environment for.

Quite the difference.

I'm not saying either one of you is wrong; I'm sure you both experienced what you say you did, it's just interesting to see the dichotomy, literally (as of this writing) next to each other.

> Few companies have the scale that makes Erlang a reasonable choice.

This is a reality that I wish more people would embrace, for so many things.

I'm reminded of a clip of Mark Cuban talking about his biggest WTF?'s from Shark Tank. One business owner made a product for $15 cost, and sold it for $30, but they were burning cash.

Mark's story is that he asked the owner about it and noticed she was offering free shipping "to make the customer happy". Cost of shipping was, of course, $16.