Ask HN: Who regrets choosing Elixir?

Re:Ask HN: Who regrets choosing Elixir? by kenhwang on Saturday May 23, 2020 @05:09PM (#23286470)

To me, this is the sniff test of a good engineer. All the good engineers I've known would've jumped at the opportunity to learn a new technology on company time/money. The engineers that refuse to learn generally don't grow.

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Re:Ask HN: Who regrets choosing Elixir? by gfodor on Saturday May 23, 2020 @05:18PM (#23286547)

Yup pretty much. Esp when it’s something like Erlang that passes the sniff test as something that likely will expand your knowledge in a meaningful way, and be a long lived technology.

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Re:Ask HN: Who regrets choosing Elixir? by tuxcall on Saturday May 23, 2020 @06:09PM (#23286990)

Yes, it doesn't matter if it's a programming language or another technology. That's engineers not worth keeping around, stuck in their old ways, sooner or later they'll make themselves obsolete.

I'm not a <language> programmer. I'm a programmer period.

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Re:Ask HN: Who regrets choosing Elixir? by setr on Saturday May 23, 2020 @07:18PM (#23287511)

The term used within my circles is 10x1 engineers -- they've replicated their first year of experience/learning 10 times over. Biggest thing to watch out for when hiring "senior" devs

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