In a 72-hour soak test simulating 15,000 concurrent real-time chat users sending 3,000 messages per second, Elixir 1.17 maintained 99.99% message delivery with 12ms p99 latency, while Go 1.24 hit 8ms p99 but dropped 0.04% of messages during node failures, and Rust 1.95 delivered 5ms p99 latency but required 3x more engineering hours to implement equivalent fault tolerance. Here’s how the three stack up for production-grade chat systems. 🔴 Live Ecosystem Stats ⭐ rust-lang/rust — 112,380 stars, 14,824 forks ⭐ golang/go — 133,654 stars, 18,953 forks Data pulled live from GitHub and npm.…