Intended for soft real time systems, with high availability ( to me that sounds like MIS/ERP/MES )
can change code without stopping system
BEAM compiles Erlang to C
Coming from Ericsson.
Elixir also runs on BEAM??
Okay, looking more into this, Elixir goes further than Erlang, building on Erlang, and they both run on top of the BEAM virtual machine.
Oh well, read some, learn some, but not likely this is something I would want to be involved with. Too tied to specialized things. But still, I can learn by reading.