Comment by vendiddy

I think in many cases the ecosystem issues are overblown. For the common 90% of use cases there are battle tested libraries out there.

For the less common ones, we tend to just roll our own which in most cases isn't that bad if you have reference implementations.

I think the most under-appreciated aspect of Elixir is how it helps reduce complexity. And there isn't a silver bullet here, but the tooling, immutability, pattern matching, process-based concurrency model, etc are all design decisions that, IMHO lead to simpler, more robust code.

(Caveat: of course, like any language, you can make a mess of things.)

I'm curious what libraries they wish existed.