I’m Matthew from Winnipeg, Canada. I grew up consuming DOS 3.3 manuals and typing out programs from computer magazines. My ten-year professional career has taken me from stock trading to video games to crowd funding across Ruby, Java, and .NET.
Simple is good. Imperative mutability often impairs reasoning about code. Balls of mud lack structure and testability. That’s why I’ve long been enthusiastic about functional programming, category theory, and the like. I used functional concepts in Ruby when appropriate.
Elixir brings simple functions and macros to a simple low latency virtual machine. I think it strikes a good balance without going down the path of point-free curried monads.
I’m Pablo from Asturias, Spain. Came from Java and Node.
Nerves is a great project! José has mentioned he would like us to create a dedicated category for it here on the forum at some point 
(just let me know when you guys are ready for it).
(Do you know if any of the other core team members are here on the forum? If so I can add them too.)
, but I’m certainly prepared to begin supporting Elixir Forum as a place that the community can talk about Nerves in addition to our Slack channel. It looks like