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Elixir shops are learning quickly that the best bet is probably to hire a senior dev that wants to learn and just give them a couple of weeks to learn. As for
by brightball 5y ago
Elixir shops are learning quickly that the best bet is probably to hire a senior dev that wants to learn and just give them a couple of weeks to learn.
As for the surge in interest, I can’t speak for everybody but when I dove into the language I realized it addressed virtually every short term and long term problem that I’ve experienced in my programming career. The rules it sets out force things to be done in such a way that many issues are avoided as a by product.
I find it balances all of my concerns better than anything else (productivity, performance, maintainability, scalability, learning curve, concurrency, stack simplification, capability, refactorability).
- dimitrios1 5y agoIf you are one of these shops please email me :) I have been dipping my toe in functional land through fantasyland / ramda
- javajosh 5y agoYeah, I'd be into that.
- tobinharris 5y agoWe do this. We're only a small 12-person software agency, we have two Elixir developers right now. When we hired the 2nd, we looked for someone who had good knowledge of Node, Rails, Laravel or whatever and were excited to learn Elixir/Phoenix. Then they completed a Udemy course and started practicing. It worked out pretty great!
- marcandre 5y agoI was hired by super.mx with 3 days of elixir under my belt. We're still hiring btw...
- lejboua 5y agoReally liked the recent podcast and hearing from you how you fixed those slow compilation times issues. Looking forward to hear more from you!
- gregors 5y agoShops that will allow devs the leeway to learn and level up will definitely have an advantage. Oh btw - we're hiring - gregory.ostermayr@passitdown.com