ierlang

se it if you know and it works great. > Erlang/Elixir certainly doesn't have the necessary breadth of libraries to support general-purpose tasks. Erlang has been used for a wide variety of tasks. From messaging systems, to databases, to controlling hardware, to running websites, streaming video, real-time bidding systems, very large file storage back-ends, message brokers, chat systems, presence systems, game "lobby" services. Payment systems. The list goes on. In this sort of "concurrent and reliable backend systems" domain it solve quite a bit of general tasks if you wish. It can certainly open files, match patterns on binary data, talk to databases, send data over the networks. > I'm starting to become interested in Scala. Why? My new job at Red Hat involves working with and hacking on software built in Java and Scala Well presumably could have interviewed with Baho, Tail-f, Klarna. It sounds the author wants an excuse to use Erlang or Elixir, it seems applying for jobs that will lead to using those technologies might help with that. > In my mind, if Erlang and Elixir want to grow, the community needs to identify ways to expand the scope of Erlang and Elixir to other potential use cases so that there are a larger number of natural onramps. Agree with that. It seems there is repeated mention of ipython. Wonder if that is what is needed. Some kind of a shell with easy commands for saving and sharing modules and code. A lot of stuff ipython does recently with distribution and connecting to other nodes and so on is already baked in. Heck someone even started one such project not too long ago (I just found it via a quick search). https://github.com/robbielynch/ierlang Maybe that is what's needed?