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The creator of Elixir was on the Rails core team and involved in the Ruby community, even for a little while after Elixir was released (until about the time Pho
by NoInkling 5y ago
The creator of Elixir was on the Rails core team and involved in the Ruby community, even for a little while after Elixir was released (until about the time Phoenix came around). The Ruby community is where Elixir gained a big chunk of its initial attention from.
- montblanc 5y agoThat doesn't mean much. He came from Rails and then switched direction to a functional, Erlang based new language. The historical "initial traction" also doesn't mean much. The two languages aren't similar at all.