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Google trends shows that Elixir is in fact growing: https://trends.google.co.in/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F0pl075p,...

Strange - that graph set shows Elixir on a slight growth path, but Erlang on a slight downward path? Isn't Elixir simply the framework around Erlang??

It would be a bit like showing Rails on the uptake, but Ruby going down, isn't it?

No, Elixir is an entirely different language running on the same virtual machine as Erlang.

It's as seeing a graph with Java usage going down, while Kotlin or Scala up.

Thanks @unscaled and @LukaD for clarifying this. I hadn't used the language, so didn't understand that Elixir wasn't just the name of the framework.

Not sure why I got the downvotes for asking a question, but there you go...

Because literally five seconds of googling would have gotten you the answer. Your comment didn't add anything for anyone but yourself. That's why you got downvoted.

I was wondering the same thing, so I found cyberferret's comment (and the answers) useful. It might be helpful to anyone who's skimming through here.

Elixir is not a framework around Erlang. It's a language running on the Erlang VM (BEAM) with painless erlang interoperability. It's the most popular alternative language to erlang on BEAM.

Opened that link and "Hmm, your search doesn't have enough data to show here."

weird?

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