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Re:Elixir at Ramp by halfmatthalfcat on Friday June 04, 2021 @06:31AM (#27392267)
That's also a strength? If you (the technical founder) know how to leverage Scala and can hire competent Scala devs (there are a lot of them who exist), you can potentially cut your development team by some large factor.
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Re:Elixir at Ramp by cies on Friday June 04, 2021 @08:57AM (#27393128)
> you can potentially cut your development team by some large factor

Compared to what? Java? Kotlin?

And only initial development? Or also maintenance?

And why potentially and not certainly? What can make that difference?

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Re:Elixir at Ramp by papito on Friday June 04, 2021 @09:21AM (#27393321)
That's all moot once you decide to do micro-services and your team has to explode by 10x, while completing the same work or less.
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