Back in 2018 I took a graduate level distributed systems course from a professor who spent most of his lecture time rambling on about how we’d be better off reading HN than our textbook. There were no exams, only four projects which involved implementing various classic distributed algorithms (gossip, chord, etc.) in Elixir.

For what it’s worth, Elixir is now my preferred language for personal projects, although I still haven’t had a chance to use it professionally.