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josevalim
Creator of Elixir
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davearonson
Today’s bonus-entry post says to post here in last year’s thread and there isn’t a new one so . . . I’m working on adapting the latest version of my “Kill All Mutants! (Intro to Mutation Testing)” talk into Elixir, meaning changing the code examples and boning up on the existing tools, maybe making a slide or two with usage examples. Why? Because I’ll be delivering the talk at Code BEAM Europe, in Stockholm, in May! Yaaaay!
(I’m also awaiting word back from a couple potential clients, for whom I might finally be getting to do some paid work in Elixir. No further details will be posted here, due to confidentiality, beyond that one seems to involve LiveView while the other is more back-endian.)
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MarioFlach
I’ve completely fall in 
will Elixir for quite some time now.
Love the language: the function aspect of it (think about data and not modeling OOP around it), the concurrency model via message passing, the BEAM is just so much fun on a daily basis. Thank you @josevalim, @chrismccord and all the people involved in this great community 
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In my work-time (I’m a freelancer), I’ve help a few companies in the digitalizing things (which here is Austria was a huge thing during Covid). A lot of real-time application written with Phoenix, LiveView, PubSub etc.
Lately I’ve been working for the company that is responsible for most of Covid screening/testing/vaccine here in Tyrol. And right now, I’m getting my toes wet with Nx and machine learning for PCR pooling strategies (hyper-pooling, hyper-cube model).
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awerment
Oh man, Elixir and this community has enabled me to turn away from a path that would have otherwise quite likely led me to quit writing software professionally. There’s just so many people I will be ever grateful for that - @josevalim, thank you in particular for kicking off this journey (This turned out more personal and lengthy than originally intended, sorry about that.)
I’ve been doing Java web development pretty much my entire career (around ten years now). Basically as soon as I was somewhat proficient as a developer, I knew that there had to be something that fits me better. Not to hate on Java or the JVM, but it somehow just does not fit the way I tend to work or think. Always struggled with the same problems and just couldn’t overlook what I perceive as shortcomings (e.g. JPA and persistence libraries in general, objects as data).
Around 2016/2017 I started actively looking for languages that would feel right. And thank god Elixir somehow got on the radar. It took a second (and actually, third) look at it to finally grok what it would give me in return for learning a (for me, at that time) weird new syntax. Dave Thomas’ „Programming Elixir“ was the point of no return for me. Pattern matching, pragmatic functional aspects, simple yet powerful tooling. Phoenix, Ecto, Absinthe (and more recently, LiveView) definitely sealed the deal.
Finding a job was near impossible though - I live in Germany, so the market was tiny for anything that is not Java/.NET/PHP (still is actually, but grew quite a bit) and moving across the country, leaving family, friends and a relationship behind was out of the question. A few companies were willing to take a chance on me, but wanted to have the team on site most of the time, so that was that. Meanwhile, I did not have any luck evangelizing Elixir at my employer at the time, nor the next one or the one after that. But always kept at it in my spare time for the last five years, reading most of the available books, watching so, so many conference talks and just tinkering away on small projects, staying up to date and hoping the time spent would have a payoff beyond just having a blast learning and playing around with it.
Then COVID hit, a long-time relationship ended, a close family member became ill and died last August and suddenly pretty much everything that kept me going at a job I wasn’t anywhere close to being satisfied with — vanished in a span of months. So I quit in November - without having anything lined up - and started applying again.
A month later, just this January, I started with a small, awesome team at a company that I don’t have to sell on Elixir (they’re also using Elm on the frontend, which is just icing on the cake for me) or have to haggle about working from home most of the time. And I just couldn’t be happier and more thankful for the opportunity and to this community for all the awesome work you’ve been and are still doing. Just… thank you!
I’m still talking about Elixir to every developer friend and former colleague I keep in touch with. There’s not one of them I haven’t sent a link to @sasajuric’s „The Soul of Erlang and Elixir“ to, which I consider the best made case for BEAM languages.
Elixir and the entire ecosystem around it grew so much in the last years that there’s hardly any domain I’m interested in where it wouldn’t be a good fit. Specifically, I would hope to get a chance to use LiveView on a larger project. Same goes for Broadway - I’ll be looking very hard for a fitting use case at work. Need to brush up on my math first, but I know Nx will be even more useful and powerful once I get the chance to use it. Nerves - I know you’re there and just waiting to turn my RaspPis into something awesome.
As tips on recommended resources for newbies - @pragdave’s book and video course are time and money very well spent (maybe start with the book, then some others and return later for the course). Once you get a taste, take a look at „Elixir in Action“. If you don’t mind a detour first and then re-learning some outdated bits: I’ve found „The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook“ a great read. Depending on what your intended use cases are: the books on Absinthe and Ecto are just amazing imho. If you’re looking to step up your game or need to convince others to give it a fair try: „Designing Elixir Systems with OTP“ and „Adopting Elixir“ will put you on solid ground.
In general: just give it a try - or another one. The syntax should become second nature in no time, as will pattern matching and thinking in a functional way. Once you’ve taken some first steps, take some time to set up your environment to be as helpful and informative as possible - integrate the formatter, get familiar with using IEx, take a look at Credo (,depending on where you’re coming from, Dialyzer may help out or annoy you, ymmv). Even if you don’t end up using or liking all of it, Elixir will change the notion of what you consider must-haves in a programming language and its tooling - and may lead you to look for and discover some other that fits your thinking better. In any case, keep at it, sometimes it takes a while to pay off.
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Alia
I have started to learn Elixir about 6 months ago. Recently I completed my project in GraphQL and Websockets. Everything seems so easy, yet a little bit difficult too but it takes some time to learn each and everything. But I hope I will develop more out of Elixir.
I think this language is a little bit different from other programming languages but its syntax and its smooth way of code are admiring me most. I will definitely contribute or share my knowledge about the errors that I have faced so far in this community.
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Brandon-G-Tripp
Hello everyone.
I came across Elixir while looking at job postings about six months ago and became intrigued and did some research. I mainly started dabbling with it on exercism.org to fill in some gaps in recursion and to gain a better understanding.
From then on it became more and more enjoyable to use and beautiful to write. It started filling in a lot of knowledge gaps I had working with JavaScript. Many small aspects of functional style that I had worked with.
Now I do not want to working with anything else and am currently working through as many resources on Elixir and Phoenix as I can and hoping to shift fully into the ecosystem in the near future.
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AntonRich
In 2022 I’m looking forward to read as many books about Elixir as I can. At the moment, I already started with Real-Time Phoenix, next would be “Programming Phoenix with LiveView”. What else? I will probably reread “Programming Phoenix”. I would like to read more than that, but which one would be I have not yet decided.
Another thing I would like to do is to actually go through the Elixir track on Exercism.
Along the way design some LiveView projects.
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soyjeansoy
The books from Dave Thomas (and updated version of his video course), Saša Jurić, and videos from Pragmatic Studio.
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