Coming from a Clojure background, "extra overhead without any gain" is more or less the definition of Elixir.
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Isn't the Erlang VM and ecosystem sort of the selling point of Elixir? Not that I'm particularly well versed in the specific strengths and weaknesses of that platform.
Yes, but you can have that with Erlang as well and I think this is exactly what grandparent was alluding to.
Runtime overhead possibly. Developer productivity is likely increased. Hard to measure that though.