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A comment on Ask HN: Whatever Happened to Elixir?.

Re:Ask HN: Whatever Happened to Elixir? by linkdd on Friday April 15, 2022 @03:30PM (#31044697)
Still using it to build Kubirds[0] (a Kubernetes operator for monitoring/alerting).

WhatsApp is built with Erlang, as well as RabbitMQ. Discord is built with Elixir.

Some people are starting to build NIFs in Rust with Rustler[1].

Erlang/Elixir and OTP are far from dead. But since there is not a new version every 3 minutes, it's not getting a lot of attention.

  [0] - https://kubirds.com
  [1] - https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler
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Re:Ask HN: Whatever Happened to Elixir? by weatherlite on Saturday April 16, 2022 @12:13PM (#31053490)
WhatsApp forked and made changes to Erlang afaik, and in any case despite being a hugely influential app they are a tiny team, that's not gonna change the number of Erlang jobs much.
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