Re:Switching to Elixir
by dorian-graph on Friday November 10, 2023 @05:41AM
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> There is a huge risk in niche languages and platforms. Hard to hire for, hard to find libraries for, hard to find blogs/tutorials/etc. With alternatives like Go having a pretty respectable concurrency story ... it is pretty hard to justify taking the risk on such a small community.
People say this every time Elixir comes up, but, I would like to hear evidence of this being true.
I worked at a startup for a couple of years and had never used Elixir. The majority of the engineers who worked there, whilst I did, also hadn't. We had a few who were experts in the language and a couple who had well-known open source packages.
Genuinely from my experience, each of the things in your list are simply not true.
> But I get concerned looking at the magic of LiveView (and LiveBook).
People say this every time Elixir comes up, but, I would like to hear evidence of this being true.
I worked at a startup for a couple of years and had never used Elixir. The majority of the engineers who worked there, whilst I did, also hadn't. We had a few who were experts in the language and a couple who had well-known open source packages.
Genuinely from my experience, each of the things in your list are simply not true.
> But I get concerned looking at the magic of LiveView (and LiveBook).
What magic? Again, genuinely questioning this.