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I am now super curious which big tech company is betting on Elixir?

• SwiftyBug 1y ago
  Nubank, Latin America's most valuable bank, relies heavily on Elixir and even acquired Plataformatec, the company where Elixir was created. A blog post by them about this: https://building.nubank.com/tech-perspectives-behind-nubanks-first-acquisition-deal/ https://building.nubank.com/tech-perspectives-behind-nubanks...
  • gorjusborg 1y ago
    Wasn't Nubank the Clojure posterchild not long ago? Are they moving from Clojure to Elixir, or adding it?
    • chamomeal 1y ago
      The referenced post is from 2020, and nubank still posts clojure content and sponsors the big clojure conference, so I’d be shocked if they were dropping clojure. Their tech stack is probably enormous, it wouldn’t surprise me if they’re using both for different things
      • sczi 1y ago
        Also the referenced post is about them acquiring plataformatec, not about using elixir. Jose Valim (the creator of elixir) left plataformatec after the nubank acquisition in order to continue developing elixir, I've never heard of nubank using elixir, afaik they're solidly a clojure shop with no plans on changing.
• pkos98 1y ago
  it's just an internal I/O-bound project, where BEAM concurrency makes lots of sense. Grown from an engineer's side project as it was useful and working well, not a company-wide effort to bet on Elixir