A lot of comments here seem to be framed around the idea that Elixir is aiming to some day dethrone Python. Knowing the Elixir ecosystem, I wouldn't even say it's the case that it's trying to gain equal market share. The Explorer library even calls out: "The aim here isn't to have the fastest dataframe library around". There seems to be a significant interest within the Elixir community around this and, as a non-data scientist who needs to do some analytics sometimes, I certainly appreciate having powerful tools like this without having to step outside Elixir. I've never had to learn about Python tooling and I'm happy to keep it that way!