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Your linked article states quite clearly that Elixir does not cross compile, and is best deployed via some deployment tool, seeing as it doesn't produce easily managed, static, standalone executables like Go does. So it seems like Elixir isn't.

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OTP release tarballs aren't much harder to deploy than static binaries :)

Elixir doesn't need to "cross compile" because its only compile target is BEAM. That's like saying "Java doesn't cross-compile".

But how something is deployed is often not the job of the code author, as deployment has become its own technical craft. The argument should largely go to whether a tool can fit the domain given typical resource constraints (team size), not whether you get a static binary.

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