But KW lists aren’t alway used with a pipe. I can’t really comment on the others as I don’t know enough about the lower level stuff (and why they may or may not be good feasible alternatives).
Well that just boils down to opinion and I think the key point here anyway is that a significant number (arguably the largest majority - a third in our poll) of Elixir users aren’t from those other languages but from Ruby 
and that in itself has brought more than just users, but ideas, talent, libraries, culture etc
Obviously Erlang plays a significant part too - and it’s precisely this marrying of the two that has led to the success we now see. It’s like what was said when Elixir was born; it’s as though Erlang and Ruby had a baby… and it wasn’t a mistake! 
