@richardjh @nixCraft To stick with your analogy: Erlang/Elixir is more like a small car if you want to run it economically. It even runs on embedded systems (see the Nerves project). It was originally designed for telephone systems that need to run without intervention, even in remote and inaccessible areas. But you can also run it in large clusters on large servers. You decide how much of an "off-road truck" you want it to be.