Yeah, there seems to be, generally speaking it's tilted towards more senior level folks, and projects, as Elixir isn't really on anyone's radar as an entry level language. Plus, understanding the concepts that make OTP great usually requires moderately thorough understanding of asynchronous and parallel programming.

I think it's been growing pretty steadily, IMHO, because Elixir/Erlang is such a wonderful platform for development, BEAM is extremely battle-tested at this point, and performance is quite good for how easy it all is... also, while I spoke against it, when you absolutely must, to you _can_ write something in C fairly easily (I've _never_ had a good time trying to do C-interop in Ruby or JavaScript for example).

Wow, after searching for jobs for Elixir I found that the market is not so small as I have thought (even in for my region!).

I always wanted to learn it deeply, since I appreciate functional and the concept of Actors, but never thought I would find a job for it easily... I'm changing my mind now.

Thanks for the enlightening!

Since you talked about rust in your original post, rustler allows you to write NIFs that can't crash the BEAM, never felt the need to use it, but at least it exists.

https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler

I'm totally aware of Rustler :) but it's a nice tool to share! I was mostly trying to speak to the real world environment where you have a simple routine or interface already prepackaged and you want access to it... Not that you can't use Rustler, but just being able to access the C interface directly is comforting (and sometimes easier than adding another compilation step between them even if it is _safer_ (e.g. prototyping)).