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Generally I would avoid building something in a non-standard language at a company unless there was a compelling technical reason to use it - someone else will
by danjac 5y ago
Generally I would avoid building something in a non-standard language at a company unless there was a compelling technical reason to use it - someone else will need to maintain it and if you're the only Elixir person on the team that's not a very good long term strategy.
- physicsguy 5y agoTotally agree, my team has been lumped with random projects in C# and Go for this exact reason, with no technical justification for it. It's not that either is particularly difficult to learn, but the person who originally wrote them did it for their CV's benefit.