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A couple of guys at my company did their first startup using Elixir years ago, but they weren’t devs so they had to contract a company to do it. They regret it
by shepardrtc 5y ago
A couple of guys at my company did their first startup using Elixir years ago, but they weren’t devs so they had to contract a company to do it. They regret it now because no one at our company can work on it, and they have to rely on the contractors who charge a lot. Sure someone could learn it, but we’ve got more important things to do. As much as everyone on HN loves it, you’re going to have to work hard to get others involved. It really isn’t worth it unless you want to own it for the rest of its life.
- pjerem 5y agoWhy did non devs choose the language of a product ? Sounds like a strange decision. Or it was the contractor's choice with its dev team waiting for years the opportunity to try Elixir.
- shepardrtc 5y agoI think they read about it on HN
- dudul 5y ago> They regret it now because no one at our company can work on it > Sure someone could learn it, but we’ve got more important things to do If they can't give you 2 or 3 days to learn a language then they don't regret it that much I guess.
- svrtknst 5y agoI'd say your unlikely to pick up the entirety of OTP in a few days, but agree that it should'nt be too daunting to train in it.
- dudul 5y agoYou usually don't need to understand the entirety of OTP to work on an elixir code base. For some Phoenix projects you don't even need to know what OTP is to get things done.