Just watched this Elixir/BEAM introduction on YouTube
and I’m intrigued by the BEAM schedulers ability to time slice processes and have non-blocking advantages over nodeJS https://youtu.be/JvBT4XBdoUE
I’m a Typescript and C# contractor doing senior dev full-stack and GraphQL apps with some Kubernetes DevOps. Had a brief look at the basic Elixir syntax and it’s not as frightening as I expected. I’m really intrigued about scaling BEAM apps compared to nodejs apps to see if Absinthe has a lower resource footprint than Apollo GraphQL.
I get the impression (from outside the Elixir world) that Elixir is more popular in the US than Europe, maybe my Internet bubble is giving me a bias view.
Two questions:
what’s the current state‐of-play wrt ecosystem momentum and company adoption of Elixir?
how healthy is the European/London jobs market for Erlang/Elixir/Phoenix/Absinthe developers?
I’m Isai. I am a software developer and computer science student from Brazil. I’ve been messing around with many things and learning a lot lately. I began my Web Dev journey with Ruby on Rails, but ended up falling in love with Elixir and now I’m learning it like crazy… such a beautiful and elegant language this one.
Sebastian here from Germany. I’m looking into Elixir/Erlang/BEAM because I think it could help us make better embedded (IoT) devices. I’m especially interested in
Hello, JuanjoA from Spain.
I am a python developer, main work with Odoo ERP for my employer, a large ecommerce where Odoo is only a small part of it.
In the hope of applying some elixir on my company.
Hello or guten Tach from Germany.
I am Sebastian and accomplish stuff with Elixir in my spare time since over 2 years but I missed to say “hello” . In general I am interest on things around the web. Java/Spring and Python are my tech stack at work.
Is this a pun on the Bielefeld conspiracy or do you indeed think moderator action is required?
Please be careful with jokes like this, they might be misunderstood by a lot of non-Germans, and even in Germany there are plenty of people who never heard about this “conspiracy”.
I’m currently a full stack dev using PHP on the back end, but have a long history (about 20 years) in Delphi development.
I’ve been dipping in and out of Elixir tutorials for the past four years or so, but never really made the time to go to the next step and create something with it. I’m hoping to do just that in a couple of months, once we’ve finished overhauling and settling into our new house.
I use Ruby on Rails by day, and I become intrigued by Elixir lately as it’s much better tool to build high-concurrency and resilient systems than Ruby.
Hey all. Cris here, currently living in the bush near Australia’s hippy capital Nimbin, NSW. A longtime developer in a variety of languages, I learned some Clojure last year. It’s a beautiful language, and learning a modest amount of it fulfilled my purpose, which was to help refresh a waning interest in programming.
But I have something practical in mind this year for which Clojure isn’t well suited (at least for me), so I decided to pick up another functional language, and Elixir it is. A couple of weeks in, I’m enjoying it enough to aim at deploying a thing or two. The comparisons with Clojure are interesting and perhaps instructive. I plan to write something about this when I’ve deployed my first Phoenix app, which will be a blog. Yep, I am writing yet another blogging engine. It could well be the world’s worst, and is completely unnecessary given a static site would be entirely adequate. But it will be mine (and is a decent learning exercise).
This Mehmet from Turkey. I was living in Southeast Asia (Thailand) until the pandemic hits. Currently working for a company called Gojek as an engineering manager. In the meantime, I manage a Twitter account (@theelixirbook) and try to post valuable Elixir content.
I developed Ruby / Go / JS / Java / Kotlin professionally (in order of proficiency) in the last ~10 years. Using Elixir for personal projects for now.
https://youtu.be/JvBT4XBdoUE
. In general I am interest on things around the web. Java/Spring and Python are my tech stack at work.
because it is not a fake. 
. I am Ziyun from Toronto in Canada.
