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This is indeed sad news (I feel he deserves the black bar of mourning once confirmed). Although Elixir gets the most attention these days the solid engineering

This is indeed sad news (I feel he deserves the black bar of mourning once confirmed). Although Elixir gets the most attention these days the solid engineering of BEAM is the foundation that Elixir is built on.

jeremyjh 7y ago
Joe was also a part of the Elixir community. He learned the language early on and participated in the mailing list and forums. Actually, he had just very recently become an admin at elixirforum.com. I will really miss him.
- flocial 7y ago
  His "now for the tricky bit" talk was not only funny but thought provoking. He was kind and very open minded. Thanks for pointing this out.
MagicPropmaker 7y ago
Candy-coated Elixir, which tries to hide concepts that are difficult for people who approach programming without the requisite mathematical skills, may be getting most of the attention, but serious mission-critical "nine-nines" projects are still being done in Erlang. I program in Erlang every day for a system that can't (and doesn't) have any downtime.
- eropple 7y ago
  Please don't do this sort of thing. It's crass and it's wrong besides.
  - pmarreck 7y ago
    Appeal to disgust fallacy. Let people mourn how they will.
  - MagicPropmaker 7y ago
    It’s not crass to honor Joe’s legacy. It’s on topic and relevant.
    - eropple 7y ago
      That's not what you're doing. You're shitposting about Elixir developers--while Joe was enthusiastic about Elixir to the point of being a mod on elixirforum.com. Stop.
      - MagicPropmaker 7y ago
        "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer." If you knew Joe, you'd know he was strict about feature-creep in Erlang. He removed Paramaterized Modules, even though it broke some popular Erlang projects -- including the Chicago Boss Web Framework. This was one of the reasons Elixir was created. To make it more "approachable" to people who didn't have the inclination to be FP purists.

jeremyjh 7y ago

Joe was also a part of the Elixir community. He learned the language early on and participated in the mailing list and forums. Actually, he had just very recently become an admin at elixirforum.com. I will really miss him.

flocial 7y ago
His "now for the tricky bit" talk was not only funny but thought provoking. He was kind and very open minded. Thanks for pointing this out.

MagicPropmaker 7y ago

Candy-coated Elixir, which tries to hide concepts that are difficult for people who approach programming without the requisite mathematical skills, may be getting most of the attention, but serious mission-critical "nine-nines" projects are still being done in Erlang. I program in Erlang every day for a system that can't (and doesn't) have any downtime.

eropple 7y ago
Please don't do this sort of thing. It's crass and it's wrong besides.
- pmarreck 7y ago
  Appeal to disgust fallacy. Let people mourn how they will.
- MagicPropmaker 7y ago
  It’s not crass to honor Joe’s legacy. It’s on topic and relevant.
  - eropple 7y ago
    That's not what you're doing. You're shitposting about Elixir developers--while Joe was enthusiastic about Elixir to the point of being a mod on elixirforum.com. Stop.
    - MagicPropmaker 7y ago
      "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer." If you knew Joe, you'd know he was strict about feature-creep in Erlang. He removed Paramaterized Modules, even though it broke some popular Erlang projects -- including the Chicago Boss Web Framework. This was one of the reasons Elixir was created. To make it more "approachable" to people who didn't have the inclination to be FP purists.