Becoming ultra popular isnt an advantage at all. Look how much crap gets produced with JS or PHP, tons of crappy libraries shallow the few good ones, people write throwaway code like there is no tomorrow and real (tm) developers have to maintain this mess. And yes, I have seen code in my day job written in Java or Scala that was nearly impossible to even understand. Much Code.
Again it's obvious that the JVM is dramatically more in use than BEAM, but I like it so far. Up to now people only stumpled upon erlang when they actually needed it, now with elixir & co a few others discover that BEAM might be exactly what they need. This shows in the ecosystem, and the community of #elixir is by far the nicest I have met so far.
Just personal experience, yours might differ (obviously). Just to reiterate: Becoming too popular results nearly everytime in garbage for everyone. Just look how much stuff gets crammed in JS nowadays.
Again it's obvious that the JVM is dramatically more in use than BEAM, but I like it so far. Up to now people only stumpled upon erlang when they actually needed it, now with elixir & co a few others discover that BEAM might be exactly what they need. This shows in the ecosystem, and the community of #elixir is by far the nicest I have met so far.
Just personal experience, yours might differ (obviously). Just to reiterate: Becoming too popular results nearly everytime in garbage for everyone. Just look how much stuff gets crammed in JS nowadays.