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> We have looked for more Elixir developers. They are rare beasts. But we have a lot of Python developers. Was there any consideration of training up the Pytho

• teilo 7y ago
  That's the 0.5 Elixir developer. Let's face it: It's easy to become a poor Elixir developer, but those capable of becoming a good Elixir developer such that it's worth the cost of effort to train them, are uncommon. As the CIO, where the buck stops, I learned Elixir well enough to write my own Genserver-like implementation from scratch, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I wanted to be able to understand the code base. But I am still a far better Python developer than I will ever be an Elixir developer. It's all a question of time utilization. Due to the modular nature of our integration, it's relatively easy to move from one platform to the other, one module-at-a-time. And in the end, the cost of getting a new Python-based platform up-and-running far outweighed the cost of trying to retrain Python devs.