State of Elixir 2025 - Community Survey Results
10 points by kamila
10 points by kamila
Very weird to see Java and Kotlin collapsed into a single language option.
Also fairly surprising that Erlang ranks so low on the "where did you come from" question; for every other hosted language I know the host language is always one of the top feeders.
The significant drop-off in votes for languages like Go or Java shows that users are prioritizing specific functional capabilities (AI [...])
Did an AI write this? That's not what the data shows at all.
If your company doesn't use Elixir – what are the main reasons? [...] Chose another technology 52%
That's not a reason.
The questions that are summarized with mean/median/range/stddev are really badly done; they take up more room than a chart would have and convey significantly less information.
Also fairly surprising that Erlang ranks so low on the "where did you come from" question; for every other hosted language I know the host language is always one of the top feeders.
My understanding of the Erlang/Elixir ecosystem is that Elixir has been a major entry point for a long time, and it ranks as more popular than Erlang in most surveys. I'm not sure if there's any other notable analogues in the word of programming languages.
Did an AI write this? That's not what the data shows at all.
I don't think it's AI-generated, merely somewhat questionable. The "drop-off" is relative to Python, JS/TS, and Rust, and (as the article mentions) the usual reason to talk to python is for AI or data science-related things. Of course, the drop-off isn't that large—it's going from ~16% to ~8%, which would just imply a wide variety of answers—but I don't think it's entirely absurd either.