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Brex is moving away from Elixir to Kotlin

22 points by kgraves 5y ago

jjdeveloper 5y ago
On the flipside Spotify is starting to use Elixir. I don't think it matters until there is a mass of companies moving away. I see job ads ever so slowly increasing but heading in the right direction. And I never hear of people moving from Elixir to Node, Ruby, PHP etc. They are usually coming from those languages and enjoying Elixir.
smallerfish 5y ago
Kotlin's a solid enough choice. Jetbrains do have some quality issues with respect to the IDE plugin (which is being merged into the IDE) but hopefully they'll get there.
weatherlight 5y ago
repost from 4 months ago https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=brex%20&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- karmakaze 5y ago
  There's no comments from those posts so pointing them out wasn't necessary.
  - weatherlight 5y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28091233 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28091233 so if no one comments, we can spam stories?
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    - karmakaze 5y ago
      If the issue was about the story being spammed, the comment should say so, or indicate it with the list of times it was posted. The search query given was for "brex" and not specific to Elixir or Kotlin.
ahallock 5y ago
Curious about the opportunity cost here and why not adopt things like typespecs and static analysis tools like Credo and Dialyzer?
- joelbluminator 5y ago
  I guess for people who like types whatever tools Elixir comes up with will never match a true typed language like Java or Kotlin. Was the whole thing really worth a rewrite - have no idea. They also mentioned lack of libraries. I don't really understand people who argue for types in a micro/small service environment. Most people don't work on a million LOC codebase anymore, instead they have a few dozens small-medium sized services. That's the current fad at least. So why is refactoring so painful in a dynamic language on a medium service? Brex didn't really provide much details here I have to say.
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montblanc 5y ago
Is Elixir slowly dying out?
- dragonwriter 5y ago
  It seems to have passed a (local, at least) hype peak. But that is very much not the same as dying out.
- weatherlight 5y ago
  No. It's not dying out.

22 points by kgraves 5y ago

On the flipside Spotify is starting to use Elixir. I don't think it matters until there is a mass of companies moving away. I see job ads ever so slowly increasing but heading in the right direction. And I never hear of people moving from Elixir to Node, Ruby, PHP etc. They are usually coming from those languages and enjoying Elixir.

smallerfish 5y ago

Kotlin's a solid enough choice. Jetbrains do have some quality issues with respect to the IDE plugin (which is being merged into the IDE) but hopefully they'll get there.

weatherlight 5y ago

repost from 4 months ago https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=brex%20&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

karmakaze 5y ago
There's no comments from those posts so pointing them out wasn't necessary.
- weatherlight 5y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28091233 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28091233 so if no one comments, we can spam stories?
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  - karmakaze 5y ago
    If the issue was about the story being spammed, the comment should say so, or indicate it with the list of times it was posted. The search query given was for "brex" and not specific to Elixir or Kotlin.

ahallock 5y ago

Curious about the opportunity cost here and why not adopt things like typespecs and static analysis tools like Credo and Dialyzer?

joelbluminator 5y ago
I guess for people who like types whatever tools Elixir comes up with will never match a true typed language like Java or Kotlin. Was the whole thing really worth a rewrite - have no idea. They also mentioned lack of libraries. I don't really understand people who argue for types in a micro/small service environment. Most people don't work on a million LOC codebase anymore, instead they have a few dozens small-medium sized services. That's the current fad at least. So why is refactoring so painful in a dynamic language on a medium service? Brex didn't really provide much details here I have to say.

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montblanc 5y ago

Is Elixir slowly dying out?

dragonwriter 5y ago
It seems to have passed a (local, at least) hype peak. But that is very much not the same as dying out.
weatherlight 5y ago
No. It's not dying out.