Most of the survey participants are developers. If we take into account the main responses as well as the ones from the 'Other' section, almost 15% of respondents are C-level executives, and heads of engineering. A few respondents are also engaged in recruitment, quality assurance and teaching roles.

Overall, the results are rather as we expected, thefore most of the answers are coming from people involved in Elixir programming on a daily basis.

Interestingly, the data shows a balanced distribution across all categories except for 'Less than a year'. Approximately 45% of the respondents are either new (Less than a year of experience) or fairly new (1-3 years of experience) to Elixir, indicating a positive trend.

To gather more definitive data on this crucial topic, we plan to include additional questions in the upcoming year's survey.

A significant number of respondents self-assessed their proficiency in Elixir as high. This trend might suggest that Elixir is relatively easy to learn, or it could reflect a common habit among people to rate their skills highly. From our experience, the general skill level in the market is quite good, yet many, including senior professionals, tend to face difficulties with OTP-related tasks.

The main factors for adopting Elixir are its functional paradigm, efficiency, and support for concurrency. While scalability is often mentioned as a benefit of Elixir, it doesn't score as highly in the survey findings.

For the additional reasons given, many respondents pointed to the Phoenix Framework, Phoenix Live View, the enjoyable experience of working with the language, and its introduction at their place of work as incentives for using Elixir.

Rust is likely the leading language to be combined with Elixir through NIFs. Although JavaScript topped the responses, it's presumed that its use is mainly for frontend purposes.

In the 'Other' section, Zig, PHP, Elm, and Perl emerged as the most commonly mentioned languages.

AWS and Fly.io emerge as the top choices for hosting, with Fly.io's decision to include Phoenix Framework creator Chris McCord on their team proving beneficial. Despite being a platform dedicated to Elixir, Gigalixir is used by only 10% of respondents.

Google and Microsoft are not very popular in the Elixir community, with Microsoft being notably less used. However, with Microsoft's recent heavy investment in AI infrastructure, it will be interesting to see if this leads to an increased adoption of their platform by Elixir users.

In the custom answers category, few people opt for hosting Elixir apps on self-hosted infrastructure.

In the never-ending war between Vim and Emacs, Elixir devs vote in favor of Vim! This is, however, nothing in comparison to the popularity of Visual Studio Code, which got 20% more than both of these combined.

Interesting insights are also being revealed from custom responses. NeoVim and Zed received 13 responses, whereas Helix accounted for 8.

Responders' votes are clear in this case. The vast majority of the Elixir community is very much satisfied with the performance of Elixir in production, giving an 8.6 average score out of 10.

The scalability factor is frequently cited as a motivation for using Elixir. Consequently, we inquired with the Elixir community about any challenges encountered when scaling Elixir applications. The responses indicate that Elixir scales effectively. However, it's important to consider that some participants in this survey may not have yet experienced scaling to a significant extent.

While certain survey participants may not have reached a large scale in their systems yet (a factor that could impact the results of the previous question), testing for fault tolerance typically occurs early in application development. The voting pattern reflects this, with a rising score rate, and the majority of respondents express very high satisfaction with Elixir's fault tolerance capabilities.

As expressed in the 'Why have you decided to adapt Elixir in your projects?' question, Elixir is valued for its productivity. This particular characteristic greatly influences the time-to-market, and the consensus among survey respondents is that Elixir effectively aids in shortening this timeframe.

JavaScript, holding the title of the world's most popular programming language, ranks at the top of this list. Ruby comes in second, a predictable placement given that many developers transitioned to Elixir for features they couldn't find in Ruby but discovered in Elixir.

In the custom response category, C# leads 16 with mentions, and Erlang with 7.

Our initial assumption was that Ruby would be the primary source of developers migrating to Elixir. However, it's intriguing to discover that the majority actually transition from JavaScript.

As of now, Phoenix LiveView is yet to release its version 1.0.0. Nonetheless, given its already prevalent use in production environments, as reported by the community and our own experience with clients, it posed an intriguing question for exploration.

It's interesting to find that over half of the respondents are already utilizing Phoenix LiveView in production. This makes it a real alternative to the more conventional component-based JavaScript frameworks.

The simplicity of learning a programming language significantly influences its rapid adoption. A majority of the respondents, nearly 80%, perceive Elixir as either easy or neutral to learn.

Attention should be paid to the 'Neutral' responses within the community, with the objective being to shift this percentage towards 'Easy'. This can be accomplished through sharing knowledge and developing tutorials that are accessible to newcomers. Given the insight that most developers are transitioning from JavaScript, Ruby, and Python, the learning materials could be specifically designed to cater to these groups.

It's reassuring to note that there isn't much need for commentary, as the community appears to rarely face any problems with Elixir dependencies. Kudos to the open-source contributors for their excellent work!

The outcome aligns well with expectations. Elixir is frequently commended for its comprehensive documentation, and tools like LiveBook, although not directly used for Elixir's documentation, contribute significantly to enhancing this aspect as well.

According to the Stack Overflow Survey Elixir has been among the top two most loved or admired programming languages (alongside Rust), and it did it for a good reason. The result of this question is pretty clear - the community loves Elixir, and they're here to stay.

The primary challenges encountered by the Elixir community are linked to its level of popularity. Issues such as recruitment, the range of open-source libraries, and the overall maturity of the ecosystem could benefit from an increase in the number of developers, decision-makers, and open-source contributors.

Additionally, several respondents point out difficulties related to the 'Learning Curve', suggesting that this might also contribute to some developers' reluctance to adopt this technology.

Most of the respondents are either employed by or in charge of an organization that uses Elixir. For those who selected 'No' in their responses, the survey outcomes could be especially relevant, as they might be contemplating the integration of this technology.

Since this question was addressed to those who chose 'No' in previous question, the response pool is smaller. Merely 13.4% have contemplated using Elixir, and among those who responded 'No' here, some might be seeking their initial employment opportunity in Elixir.

The question was aimed at those who said 'No' in previous question. The most significant hurdles in adopting Elixir are identified as a lack of team expertise and financial implications.

A majority of the respondents are employed in startups, which is encouraging as it indicates a growing preference for Elixir as the primary technology in these new businesses. As expected, 'Large enterprise' responses are the least common.

The implication of these findings is clear: there's a need to convince larger corporations to adopt Elixir, as the language's widespread adoption is heavily linked to its use and investments by major enterprises.

While a number of participants noticed a decrease in operational expenses after switching to Elixir, there's also a significant portion who experienced an increase. This variation could be attributed to factors like hiring and salary expenses.

It's important to acknowledge that this observation isn't straightforward to quantify, so these responses could be considered more as subjective perceptions rather than concrete data.

These responses reveal a fascinating insight: despite Elixir leading to increased or unchanged operational costs for many businesses, the vast majority of the community still perceives adopting Elixir as a competitive edge for their companies.

Unfortunately, hiring seems to be a very painful experience for companies building Elixir teams. From our perspective, it comes down to two things - the shortage of talent in IT in recent years and Elixir being a less popular technology.

Hiring, though, is a process, and just like you need to market products or services, there is also a need to build a strong brand around given technology to attract the best talents. Some of the companies, leverage other forms of team-building methods, such as freelancing or outsourcing, which could be additionally beneficial for companies struggling to hire the best talents.

Most of the companies are not very active in the Elixir community. That correlates very well with answers to previous questions about hiring. If a company wants to attract the best talents and contribute to Elxir's popularity, it should consider starting more initiatives within the community.

And finally! It was an exciting question for all of us since many people tend to ask it. We also saw some reports in recent years where data seemed a bit off.

For sure, we will strive to gather even more answers next year, but in this survey, most of the Elixir developers are spread across the USA, Brazil, Poland, Germany, and Canada!

Since we're from Poland, we're happy to be on the podium, while it also seems like José Valim's country - Brazil - followed the creator of Elixir to take the second place. USA takes 1st place.