Elixir is without a doubt still one of the core languages. We try to use the right tool for the job and Elixir is the right tool for parts of our system.
Interesting. We are researching Elixir for an online transaction ledger (thousands of payments per second) along with kafka. So far thats the technology that seems more suitable. That discord article was really appreciated to understand some of the intricacies of using Elixir.
We also combo Elixir NIFs and rust to speed up parts of the Elixir services https://blog.discord.com/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-11-m...