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Elixir is at a different level than the other languages you've listed. I learned and built stuff for fun using Elixir around 6 years ago while in college, and d
by 2c2c2c 4y ago
Elixir is at a different level than the other languages you've listed. I learned and built stuff for fun using Elixir around 6 years ago while in college, and dropped it on my resume in the pile of technologies I know around then. In the past 2 years, as my yoe hit 5 years, I now get the hoard of specialized Elixir recruiters who filter by 'elixir' and '5 yoe'. These amount to 75%+ of the people who contact me about jobs.
A lot of startups fully bought into elixir+phoenix over the years. Most of these companies would have probably been better off using node or something, but they do exist.
- yomkippur 4y agoCurious what your TC was and # of employees. Were they all startups or were there any established companies hiring Elixir/Phoenix ? The technology is very interesting but I find that it has the same issues as clojure: limited talent pool, questionable cost/productivity gains. LiveWire is very interesting but its now emulated to a large degree in other more popular languages enough that I could put off learning Phoenix and opt for a more modular solution with popular languages.
- 2c2c2c 4y agoI've never taken any of the offers and have never used Elixir in a professional context. Most of these are small startups and can range from 100-200k + equity, and the only decision behind using elixir was probably the novelty, not beam or the success stories behind discord and whatsapp suggesting its utility for at scale throughput
- yomkippur 4y agoyeah the novelty aspect of tech is always very alluring. still remember building on top of Meteor.js and thinknig 'this is it, this is the future'