We all have varying degrees of exposure to Big Tech. Some of it seems fine, stable and can be relied on. Some of it feels like shifting sand under your feet. React seems to move a lot on whims, I don’t envy tracking that. Go seems like it might be fairly stable? With the current geo-political climate I don’t find massive corporations to be a guarantee for stability. People may be getting fired even though they chose IBM. The world is wild right now.
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honesty question, how popular is Elixir these days? is it gaining traction or did it become a completly niche language?
I remember that 6 or so years ago a lot of people was talking about it.
Many ruby users were moving to Elixir but recently I hardly hear anything
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I’m sure Elixir will eat some portion in market share. Give it some time.
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I guess not many companies need the scalability that Elixir/Erlang offers.
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Other languages are too popular and good enough 
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I think you have a good point, many languages are just “good enough” these days.
I noticed that even Java is evolving quite fast now,
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I am interested in learning Elixir, but I have been working on ASP.NET Core projects most of my time.
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It’s done great for an independent language - not many of those have taken off in the last decade or so like Elixir has.
One way to measure is number of professionally published books… and Elixir has quite a lot of them Elixir Programming Language Portal | Devtalk 
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I like Elixir very much. However, it is definitely a blocker to most people that functional programming is hard.
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