Somebody posted the link again and now it got much more engagement.
…And of course, some grumpy people immediately jump in to say that Elixir has nothing that everything else has. And that performance gains are accidental. And that this is not about choosing Elixir but moving away from Rails and Python. Etc.
It’s very rich of them to claim hype and evangelization when it’s them who are always extremely quick to barge in and demean Elixir. 
Without fail, every time, even though Elixir has probably 3-4 posts on the first page of HN a week. If even that many.
Oh well. I am happy to report that…
…and that my desire to argue in such threads gets less and less and I predict that by next year I won’t even bother. We’ll see.
