&gt; I honestly don&#x27;t understand why Ruby developers are all so excited about Elixir&#x2F;Phoenix.<p>Perhaps the history of Ruby uptake explains it? My feeling is many of these &#x27;Ruby&#x27; developers started as Rails developers. Rails did cool stuff, but it had they fanboy&#x2F;hype around it that only Apple usually garner.<p>I wonder if now Ruby is established, has lost its excitement, and problems are encountered by users day-to-day, Elixir looks like the next magic bullet? I.e. they are predisposed to being attracted to the noise [and NodeJS didn&#x27;t attract them all because of...??]<p>I&#x27;ve nothing against Ruby or Rails, but I did not appreciate the single-minded hype and excitement around one piece of technology which wasn&#x27;t flawless.