>There was really no reason to do so at all

Please - I can do a ton of stuff in Elixir without having to reach for some weird/paid third party service. https://twitter.com/ryanrwinchester/status/15806523244057763...

Now with Liveview I can even ditch the grotesque React toolchain entirely.

Also, in my experience as defacto CTO of a unicorn YC company (Papa), hiring was not insanely difficult. I hired about ~45 engineers Great Ruby/Go devs translated pretty easily into Elixir after minimal training. The language is beautiful and simple.