Thanks for sharing your experience. I love Elixir, but I have yet to find a way to be truly productive with it. Funnily enough I had a very similar experience with Go.

* It was very hard for our startup to find any Go developers.

* The Go language server would very often cause massive CPU spikes.

* At the time I was using it, the community support in Go was really, really bad.

I'm sure things have changed a bit, but there are always growing pains when choosing a niche technology.