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It would be nice to work with Elixir, having played around with it.

However every Elixir job I've seen requires Elixir experience, so I don't really see much opportunity for working with it professionally.

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Yeah, I'm in the same boat. Have tried to find a side project that would justify Elixir/Erlang and nothing has jumped out at me that would cut it. I still generally want to pick the best tool for the job (even on side projects), and Erlang frequently feels like overkill for the use cases I have in mind.

Sure but for these companies "did some Elixir in a weekend project" doesn't count as experience.

Yes, that is my point. In order to demonstrate experience you really need to show work on something that justified Erlang, not just that you understand the syntax of Elixir and the basics of working with the Erlang VM. And usually a "weekend project" does not qualify (though that really depends on the project).

But I do think most companies that are looking for Elixir experience would be happy with your weekend project if was actually used by people in a way where Elixir could shine.

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