The years help. As they do everywhere. Competitive job market all around right now. Taking the question at face value, I don't know your intent, and not as a b

The years help. As they do everywhere. Competitive job market all around right now. Taking the question at face value, I don't know your intent, and not as a bitter commentary on the experience of trying to find a job with tech one likes: I know people that did embedded C++ that got recruited into doing Elixir on a Nerves project. I know lots of people who have just switched their web work in Ruby or Python to Elixir. Either by finding the job or doing the work for getting the tech adoption OK:ed at current employer. Most Elixir devs I know did not have prior Erlang experience. But most did have prior dev experience. The BEAM ecosystems solve problems you mostly encounter with some experience. I have also seen and onboarded several junior folks into the ecosystem and jobs as their first professional thing. Connecting and collaborating with people who could vouch for you when the opportunity comes is a good starting point. But there are many paths. (edit: fix a spelling)