What can I do with Elixir?

Almost anything you can do with a normal programming language. But a few more things…

1. You can run concurrent programs more easily
2. Use it with Ecto to talk to the database in a more performant way
3. Build high speed API’s that can handle a higher level of concurrent connections than almost any other language
4. Create system software (search engines, databases, queues)
5. Construct multi-node and multi-process crawlers

In short, because of the concurrent nature of the BEAM and the ease of using Elixir to do concurrency, you can get a lot done with it - without blowing out your brains or wondering what kind of magic is happening behind the scenes.