Uses for Elixir Programming

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Elixir can be used for desktop development like C#/Python can

The BEAM/Erlang was primarily designed to run unattended systems in a fault tolerant manner; concurrency and distribution were implemented in the service of fault tolerance. So working with Elixir(OTP) is quite a bit different than with mainstream desktop applications:

Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP Chapter 8: Supervisors - OTP Supervisors p.175:

Note how we have grouped dependent processes together in one subset of the tree and related processes in another, starting them from left to right in order of dependency. This forms part of the supervision strategy of a system and in some situations is put in place not by the developer, who focuses only on what particular workers have to do, but by the architect, who has an overall view and understanding of the system and how the different components interact with each other.