<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rapsey</author><text>The point how all of Erlangs strengths are now obsolete because of XYZ that now exists misses the point how with Erlang&amp;#x2F;Elixir all of those things are at your fingertips using a single technology stack that is not hard to use and will scale very well for practically anyone.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nelsonic</author><text>Sadly that HN thread is biased toward the person&amp;#x2F;team that is &amp;quot;leaving&amp;quot; Elixir because it wasn&amp;#x27;t a good fit for them. For the people who understand Elixir&amp;#x2F;OTP&amp;#x27;s strengths it&amp;#x27;s excellent. We use Elixir for several apps and haven&amp;#x27;t had any issues recruiting&amp;#x2F;training people (remote). If we were to chose again we would 100% pick Elixir; nothing else comes close for our use-case.</text></item><item><author>WayToDoor</author><text>See also, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=27192873&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=27192873&lt;/a&gt; (Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?) with great insights about the language.&lt;p&gt;Another popular thread that comes to mind is the one about Discord scaling Elixir (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14748028&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14748028&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=19238221&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=19238221&lt;/a&gt;)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elixir 1.12</title><url>https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2021/05/19/elixir-v1-12-0-released/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>weatherlight</author><text>I went though that persons submissions&amp;#x2F;comments on HN. its literally the only time they mention Elixir, everything else is ruby&amp;#x2F;rails or python. Makes me wonder if it&amp;#x27;s a troll post.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nelsonic</author><text>Sadly that HN thread is biased toward the person&amp;#x2F;team that is &amp;quot;leaving&amp;quot; Elixir because it wasn&amp;#x27;t a good fit for them. For the people who understand Elixir&amp;#x2F;OTP&amp;#x27;s strengths it&amp;#x27;s excellent. We use Elixir for several apps and haven&amp;#x27;t had any issues recruiting&amp;#x2F;training people (remote). If we were to chose again we would 100% pick Elixir; nothing else comes close for our use-case.</text></item><item><author>WayToDoor</author><text>See also, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=27192873&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=27192873&lt;/a&gt; (Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?) with great insights about the language.&lt;p&gt;Another popular thread that comes to mind is the one about Discord scaling Elixir (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14748028&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14748028&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=19238221&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=19238221&lt;/a&gt;)</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Elixir 1.12</title><url>https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2021/05/19/elixir-v1-12-0-released/</url></story>