Hello Elixir World (Introductions thread)

[ShalokShalom]

Hello Valentin, here is Matthias from Wiener Neudorf

[oboudry]

Hello Elixir World!
I’m Olivier from Switzerland. I studied biology but then switched to IT business. I learned functional programming with Haskell, but now want to learn Elixir for its very nice Phoenix framework. I’ve used Ruby on Rails in the past and loved it, but I really enjoy functional programming and Phoenix/Elixir seem to bring the best of both RoR and functional programming.

[kokolegorille]

Hello everyone,

I have been around for a while, but did not introduce myself yet, I am very pleased to have received MOTM this month, so it is about the time to present myself.

I am Koko from Geneva/Switzerland. I am a former chess master, turned to IT/Linux, Ruby, JS and Elixir. I got smashed by FP… so different, and yet so powerful.

I enjoy been here, trying to help if I can, but also to learn a lot from bright people hanging around.

[asqrd]

Hi everyone,

My name is Alex, I’m from Toronto, Canada currently living in Medellin, Colombia.

I actually came from Java (Spring), and only after learning about Elixir finally bit the bullet and tried ruby as well, though I personally liked hanami more so than rails

[subetei]

Hello everyone
Really liking this community after a few days immersed here. I’m Tyler from Seattle these days and years back was a Prolog programmer. I remember experimenting with erlang years ago hoping to go functional in the internet world but couldn’t economically make it work. When I heard about Elixir was like THIS IS IT… the solution! Now it’s all I want to program in.
Looking forward to many years programming with you all.
Cheers!

[lackac]

Hello Elixir World

I’m László from Hungary where I work remotely for a cooperative based in London called 100Starlings. I have been doing Ruby development for more than a decade and have played with Elixir for a couple years now. However, we recently started our first serious Elixir project.

Hoping to be helpful in the community.

Let me know if you’re also from Hungary.

[bonk]

Ahoy, I’m Bonk from SF!

[amnu3387]

Hey, I’m Micael from Portugal, I’ve been working with Ruby on Rails and stumbled upon elixir/erlang/functional programming somehow, read a bit, it made sense so I started learning it - I’m building a game with elixir/phoenix/vue and so far it’s been amazing - I almost don’t feel like writing ruby anymore - plus, the game is about wizardry, so elixir fits right in there with the potions and stuff

[Ryzey]

Hi, I am Ryan from Laos . I program as a hobby and previously used C# and JavaScript. Just started learning Elixir and enjoying it!

[meceat]

I’m w33 and I live in China. I’m a beginner in the programmer world. Try to program something that let me feel awesome.

[tomazbracic]

Hello World, I am Tomaz from Slovenia, Europe. Nice to meet you.

[saint]

Hello Elixir World, My name is Saint from Philippines.

[crabonature]

After ten years of commercial programming…
Next after two years of zero LoC at all I feel little hungry once more…
Now learning Elixir, coz there can be some power in this magic potion maybe…

Marcin greets from Poland.

[datbayev]

Hello, World! I’m Alibek, never learned functional programming languages. Super excited about getting to know more about Elixir!

[simka]

Hi everybody! I’m Maciej, currently a front end developer, but I wanted to expand my horizons a little and Elixir got my attention

[indatawetrust]

Hello to everyone! I am Ahmet from Istanbul/Turkey.

[ramonwrocha]

Hello World, I am Ramon from Brazil, nice meet you all!

[JoeZMar]

Hello world! I am currently traveling around in an RV while working as a freelancer. I started out with Ruby and just recently moved to Elixir.

[sharno]

Hello,
I’m Mohamed, from Egypt, but living now in Greater Boston Area. Working as a Full Stack developer, mainly with React and nodejs. But so interested in functional programming paradigm (I’ve been trying to write functional code in JS, it’s tough but with ES6 it’s a bit easier).
I went to Boston’s Elixir meetup for the first time and it was fun. Now I’m amazed by the Elixir capabilities, especially the readability of code and how simple the language is. The community is amazing too. So I hope I can work someday with it

[frigidcode]

Hi all, I realize I haven’t posted in this thread yet. I am from NY (USA) and currently building a weather station with Nerves and Elixir. Having a lot of fun doing it, you can find blog posts here. The language I use daily for work is Scala, however I find Elixir much more enjoyable to write. Hoping to meet more Elixirists/Alchemists at Lonestar Elixir at the end of this month. Travel was $$$ but you only live once!