Hello Elixir World (Introductions thread)

Hi there! I’m Toon. Glad to be here!

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Hello, my name’s Sam and I’m from Canada :canada:
Pleasure to be here with you all :handshake:

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Node. Connect (:elixir_forum)

Hi I’m David from Sweden

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Hi, my name’s Desdulianto, and I’m from Indonesia :indonesia:
Joined this forum to learn more about Elixir. Got curious since involved with project using Hotwire and then Livewire.

Looking forward for discussion and contribution!

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Welcome to the community.

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Hello,

I am learning Elixir from Pragmatic Studio’s “Elixir and OTP” course. I am currently a Laravel developer looking to possibly switch to Elixir. I am really enjoying it so far, but I wish Elixir had its own designated IDE.

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Hey everyone,

After lurking here for months, I figured it was time to finally say hi. Not really a full introduction since I like to keep things a bit private, but I just wanted to check in and say hello :slightly_smiling_face:

Lately I’ve been slowly getting back into Elixir and Phoenix after not touching them for a few years. I really enjoyed working with them back then, and I’m hoping to use them more often now. At some point, I’d also like to learn Ash since I’ve heard some really good things about it.

Glad to be here!

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Hey everyone!

I’ve been using Elixir on and off for about two years now — learning the language, exploring the ecosystem, and getting familiar with its strengths. But up until now, most of my work has been learning and experimenting in the background.

I’m finally shifting my focus toward building real projects with Elixir — especially around web apps, automation, and distributed systems. I’ve always been drawn to the elegance of the language, the power of the BEAM, and the developer experience, so it feels like the right time to go all in.

I joined the forum to engage more with the community, learn from others, and share my journey as I go. Looking forward to connecting!

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Hi all,

Pretty new to Elixir but I’m really into networks and functional programming, so I’m really finding a home in it. I thought it was time to get to know the community a bit better and that a small intro wouldn’t go amiss. Thanks for all the high-quality stuff people are doing in the ecosystem. It’s really impressive so far :smiley:

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Hi I’m Matt Beanland, new to Elixir early this year, I live in the Adelaide Hills, Australia. I am into autonomous networks and work at Telstra on innovation and shared tech to enable our many and varied network domains. I was drawn to Ash given its declarative nature and have contributed a Neo4j datalayer and an extension for my Outstanding protocol for evaluating whether goals are met. See diffo.dev · GitHub.

Lastly I wanted to say thanks to the Elixir community - you are amazing both technically and in how welcoming you are to newcomers.

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Hey everyone :waving_hand:. Ashbin here, from Nepal.
I have been a long time admirer of elixir and FP in general and finally dived a little into elixir roughly a year back. Its been a fun ride and am really enjoying language features, binary pattern matching being a very unique one.
Elixir ecosystem in large also seems very coherent and easy to follow through, perhaps due to DSLs looking like first class language feature so thanks to everyone for making it possible.
As of recent, I was doing some Advent of Code and the protohackers challenge utilizing elixir.
[Also a long time lurker in here, but had forgot to introduce myself, thanks to the extra entries in the book giveaways for reminding me to introduce myself :grin: ]

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Hello everyone. A (re)introduction. I’ve been flirting with Elixir for years. But now that AI coding is here (whether or not you’re ready), I’m excited about getting back into IC development. (Mostly working as a Team lead these days).

Obscure aspects of Elixir I’m interested in. Lua-erl scripting support, Real-time apps, Hot-code reload (wish this was better, to be honest), Notebooks.

For me, Liveview was one of those “whoa” moments. And this video of course => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBT4XBdoUE (Soul of Elixir). They deeply inspired me to keep checking out Elixir.

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Hi everyone, I’m Alex from Trieste, Italy. 40 years in IT, managing infrastructure for Port Terminals. After many years with imperative and object-oriented languages, I discovered Elixir and fell in love with it. Currently building a visual Flow-Based Programming framework on Elixir, Phoenix and LiveView. Excited to finally join the conversation here.

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