‘Moving away’ makes it sound like someone will never use the language again.
This is something that is definitely not true for me/my company: We most definitely use other languages besides Elixir. Even though we are using Elixir in some projects, we are still using Ruby/Rails because it is in some cases faster during prototyping (for the same reasons that make Elixir better suited for maintaining longer-lasting projects) and because of the larger pool of people who already know/use it.
I am using Haskell as web-development language in a personal project, and also really liking it.
Rust is something I’d love to be able to finally use in a real project as well.
However, neither of these have ‘replaced’ Elixir. Rather, they are separate tools with separate strengths/weaknesses, and each has its own purpose.
To be honest, I don’t think I have ever ‘moved away’ from any language. There are definitely languages I enjoy less working in (C and Java come to mind) because of some design decisions that are now (arguably) viewed as dated. However, I still (have to…) work with those languages because not everything can be evergreen in this world. And I do like the intellectual challenge of writing clean code in Java, or building my own Trait-system in C.
And another side note would be that there are also languages out there that I shun to touch with my ‘bare hands’: Rather than writing plain HTML/CSS/JS, I much prefer HAML/SCSS/ES6 (or even replacing ES6 with Elm) because of the tremendously improved development experience of these higher abstraction languages.
