I recently had a convo with a company that moved into Elixir because they had an easier time hiring as they could tap into the local Ruby developers and into folks interested in functional programming (in France). Would you mind saying which country in Europe in particular? Was it also France?

One company in France, the other in Germany.

FWIW, timezone handling was added in v1.8 or v1.9. At this point I think Elixir has ported all features from Timex, except date parsing and date formatting.

To be fair that's two big usecases for datetimes in any software ;)

I would say there are at least 4 subgroups that are active in the Elixir community: distributed systems (alongside Erlang), web dev (Phoenix, Plug, etc), data pipelines (GenStage, Broadway, etc), and embedded systems (Nerves, Scenic, etc).

Gaming, as far as I know, is not one of them.

As someone who used Devise multiple times and always ended up regretting said choice in the long term, I am actually glad there is no Devise for Phoenix.

In one day I can quickly get something up and running with Guardian and have full control over how my app does authentication. Password reset and confirmation are easily done with Phoenix.Token without a need to touch the database.

Also, authorisation is a breeze on Phoenix. Take a look at Canada: https://github.com/jarednorman/canada - and it is only 10 LOC.