I hear the 3rd party library complaint a lot, but as someone who has been writing elixir professionally for about as long as you have I just haven't seen that. Speaking of kafka, the clients aren't as far along as the official clients, but the same can be said for almost all languages.
Being able to utilize erlang libraries means there are a ton of heavily production tested libraries you can easily drop into an elixir project.
My current job uses a mix of Java & Elixir. I definitely feel the pain of using the Elixir client when the Java client offers so much.
I also encountered some pain with the AWS client for Elixir when our company implemented SSO. There was a lack of support for a certain flavor of environment variable if I recall correctly. It's not horrible, just a pain.
> C#/.NET, Go, JavaScript/Node, Ruby, Python, C++, and PHP probably all do way better than Elixir in third party support.
hard disagree on all but c++, .net and maybe python
I think people forget erlang has been around a long long time and I've written ruby for years and can speak with great confidence that the equivalent ruby libraries in elixir are typically much higher quality
Being able to utilize erlang libraries means there are a ton of heavily production tested libraries you can easily drop into an elixir project.