Hear hear. Elixir is a dream for this kind of stuff. But it requires very different decisions "all the way down" to make it work outside of BEAM. And BEAM itself feels heavy to most systems devs.

(IMO it's not for many use cases, and to the extent it is I'm happy to see things like AtomVM start to address it.)

I'm just happy I can use Elixir + Zig for NIFs.