José Valim

The addition of types to Elixir marks a significant evolution of the language. By enhancing safety and maintainability, it addresses a vital feature increasingly demanded by developers in today's fast-paced software environments. I strongly believe this will attract a broader developer audience, thereby massively growing our userbase. It makes Elixir more competitive and appealing for large-scale enterprise applications.

The Elixir ecosystem, with its robust concurrency model and fault-tolerant design, offers outstanding solutions for modern software challenges, especially for scalable, maintainable, and highly available applications.

As the creator of Elixir, I strongly believe new companies should choose Elixir over Ruby for web development. Elixir's scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency features make it an excellent choice for building robust and efficient web applications.