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I would love to use Elixir day to day. As the author points out, it's an enjoyable language. I highly recommend every developer to try it out, especially if you

I would love to use Elixir day to day. As the author points out, it's an enjoyable language. I highly recommend every developer to try it out, especially if you've never done any functional programming before. It has one of the best communities around.

patrickdavey 8y ago
Yip, I'd love to program professionally in it someday. No idea how to get there though. I live in a smallish town in New Zealand and there are two Ruby shops here, no one is doing elixir. I can't imagine getting a remote elixir job without prod experience first. Also, as Beam, OTP etc is quite different, I'd really like to work on that with a team who really know it. Still, someday in the future, it's a great language.
- mattferderer 8y ago
  Elixir & Ruby both seem to be two of the best languages to work in for finding remote jobs. Elixir is new enough to where I think you could show some open source code & get a job without prod experience in it. Especially if you have prod experience in other languages.
  - patrickdavey 8y ago
    I made https://github.com/patrickdavey/caster https://github.com/patrickdavey/caster as a small toy app and I did Advent of code in elixir a couple of years ago. I haven't used it in a while though, it's just hard justifying the time at the moment. Maybe when my current (remote Ruby) job comes to an end I'll take a look. I fell into my current role, not quite sure where to start finding a remote roll! Anyway, thanks for the reply and encouragement :)
nobleach 8y ago
I sure do love Elixir, the language, the dev experience (code as documentation!!!), the docs themselves are something of a gold standard to me. (If you've ever tried to wade through OCaml docs... you feel me) The only gripe I've had is that when speed is a requirement, I have to reach for other stacks. Erlang is an uptime workhorse, it's just pretty slow compared to the JVM. Speed isn't always the most important thing... I get that. But when it is, Elixir/Erlang has some room to grow. I totally agree though, I wish I could write it every day.

patrickdavey 8y ago

Yip, I'd love to program professionally in it someday. No idea how to get there though. I live in a smallish town in New Zealand and there are two Ruby shops here, no one is doing elixir. I can't imagine getting a remote elixir job without prod experience first. Also, as Beam, OTP etc is quite different, I'd really like to work on that with a team who really know it. Still, someday in the future, it's a great language.

mattferderer 8y ago
Elixir & Ruby both seem to be two of the best languages to work in for finding remote jobs. Elixir is new enough to where I think you could show some open source code & get a job without prod experience in it. Especially if you have prod experience in other languages.
- patrickdavey 8y ago
  I made https://github.com/patrickdavey/caster https://github.com/patrickdavey/caster as a small toy app and I did Advent of code in elixir a couple of years ago. I haven't used it in a while though, it's just hard justifying the time at the moment. Maybe when my current (remote Ruby) job comes to an end I'll take a look. I fell into my current role, not quite sure where to start finding a remote roll! Anyway, thanks for the reply and encouragement :)

nobleach 8y ago

I sure do love Elixir, the language, the dev experience (code as documentation!!!), the docs themselves are something of a gold standard to me. (If you've ever tried to wade through OCaml docs... you feel me) The only gripe I've had is that when speed is a requirement, I have to reach for other stacks. Erlang is an uptime workhorse, it's just pretty slow compared to the JVM. Speed isn't always the most important thing... I get that. But when it is, Elixir/Erlang has some room to grow. I totally agree though, I wish I could write it every day.