Leave comments at: https://elixirforum.com/t/elixirconf-2023-owen-bickford-elixirs-secret-ingredient/59931 https://2023.elixirconf.com/presenters#speaker-owen-bickford-elixirconf-us-2023 Its functional paradigm, concurrency, and fault tolerance are frequently cited reasons for choosing Elixir. If it’s going to take over the world, there is a more fundamental rationale that newcomers will value as they make adoption decisions. In this talk, I will review the many reasons Elixir is my first choice for most - if not all - programming challenges I encounter. Then, I’ll dig into one of the lesser talked about features of Elixir that allows it to tackle problems that were previously understood to be a bad fit for the language and the BEAM.