Funny to see this because I am currently writing about how this is not the case :). It comes up so frequently it’ll be useful to have a place to point to.
tristan
Rebar3 Core Team
patrickdm
AstonJ
kip
ex_cldr Core Team
Being nearly at the end of a month Long project that has taken two years (CLDR-based libs) I have been contemplating some kind of book on i18n / l18n using elixir. There is some good tooling (gettext, translate, CLDR) but some Googling shows very little about how to design and implement applications for multiple cultures.
Given that user engagement is a critical success element in public facing apps this is a little surprising to me (there was one java-based book that is quite old). And I think elixir (especially its meta programming features) make it quite straight forward to build adaptable interfaces compared to many other languages if considered at the start.
Feedback from this community on whether that is of interest would be helpful to guide my thinking. It’s a large task!
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Phillipp
I would buy that. If you want to self-publish, please go with leanpub.com, it’s such an awesome platform, especially for large technical books.
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AstonJ
Sounds like a great idea Kip 
I’d definitely contact some of the major publishers with a proposal 
Feel free to start a dedicated thread about it in the Projects or Elixir Chat section if you like (or we can move these posts to a new thread if you like) 
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dbern
outlog
kodepett
Intent is a critical component of motivation, my motivation for buy programming books is to be able to write production quality code after meticulously going through the book. More often than not, there’s this disclaimer that the code in the book is not production ready and there are better ways to implement stuff for production. It begs the question how many more books do I have to read to be able to write production quality/ready code. Mathematics comes to mind, for years I was taught mathematics, a lot of formulas without knowing how and when I was going to apply them(if that even makes sense), I lost interest eventually. To be honest, these not production ready codes actually ends up in production. My humble submission to book authors is to expose us to production quality code.
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gregvaughn
Infinite. You don’t learn that from books. You learn that from getting involved in production systems, either via open source or employment. Full production caliber code has so many special cases and caveats specific to the particular company’s constraints that I wouldn’t want to read a book that deals with that.
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