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Re:Elixir at Ramp by travisgriggs on Friday June 04, 2021 @12:23AM (#27390523)
> I would not recommend Elixir or Scala or anything similar for startups.

What about for not-startups (whatever those are)? I'm attempting to use Elixir for a new component of a kind of startup like product in a 50 year old company. So kinda startupie, kind very not. But more generally, I'm curious what changes with the "for startups" qualifier?

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Re:Elixir at Ramp by lostcolony on Friday June 04, 2021 @01:30AM (#27390899)
What are you hoping to gain by using Elixir? I used it in a non-startup years back specifically because of the reliability; we needed a system that, for all intents and purposes, did not go down, and we needed to build and support it with a small team. It worked beautifully for that.
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Re:Elixir at Ramp by sethherr on Friday June 04, 2021 @12:39AM (#27390627)
Are you looking for product market fit? If so, you need to focus on that and not scaling.

If you have a guaranteed internal market so you need to launch with scale, then that’s more important

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