I have heard this quite a bit, and it very well may be true, but it has not been my experience. I worked in a rails shop and there are tons of people that want to learn and work with elixir, but there are no jobs they can find. Likewise on Elixir forums and slack, there are lots of people looking for Elixir work, but not many people hiring for it.
I think within the rails community there's enough people that want to give elixir and phoenix a try but if you're not using phoenix the application pool drastically shrinks.
