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Whoa, great idea, explained nicely! Elixir looks ridiculously powerful. How's the job market for Elixir -- could one expect to have a chance at making money wr
by isoprophlex 3y ago
Whoa, great idea, explained nicely!
Elixir looks ridiculously powerful. How's the job market for Elixir -- could one expect to have a chance at making money writing Elixir?
- ed 3y agoYep! Elixir is ridiculously powerful. Best place to look for work is the phoenix discord which has a pretty active job channel.
- anonyfox 3y agoIt's indeed very powerful and there are jobs out there. Besides being an excellent modern toolbox for lots of problems (scaling, performance, maintenance) and having the arguably best frontend-tech in the industry (LiveView), the Phoenix framework also is the most loved web framework and elixir itself the 2nd most loved language according to the stackoverflow survey. Its still a more exotic choice of a tech stack, and IMO its best suited for when you have fewer but more senior devs around, this is where it really shines. But I also found that phoenix codebase survived being "tortured" by a dozen juniors over years quite well. I basically make my money solely with Elixir and have been for ~5 years now, interrupted only by gigs as a devops for the usual JS nightmares including serverless (where the cure always has been rewriting to Elixir/Phoenix at the end).