I'm hoping to find a reason to use it soon.

Do you have a program that doesn't need to run fast?

I actually experimented with using it as a backend for a multiplayer turn based game.

I eventually gave up because it’s a bit too difficult without a team.

Why not use Java, C#, or Swift in that case?

It's a good joke but most of my applications are I/O bound. So I use Elixir for performance.