Hello Everyone,
i am Sebastian. I allready participated in some discussions and thought it is about time to say ‘hi’ 
sjm
asadsiddiquee
Greetings, lovely people! I’m thrilled to be a part of this community and share my journey with you all.
As a researcher in biology, coding was never a part of my formal education. However, I became interested in learning Javascript about a year ago, simply for the sake of learning something new and exciting. Admittedly, I have a tendency to take breaks from learning for weeks at a time, but with coding, I found myself consistently coming back for more.
Over time, I began to pick up other skills such as HTML, CSS, and various frameworks such as Tailwind, ReactJS, NextJS, and HeadlessCMS. While I don’t have much professional experience, I did some freelancing work creating blogs and converting designs from Figma to React. However, I felt like I was missing a deeper understanding of the backend, particularly when it came to building more complex projects.
I received requests from individuals asking me to develop mini-products like team collaboration tools, video conferencing platforms, and dashboards with numerous functionalities. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the knowledge to undertake these tasks. I realized that I needed to broaden my skill set to become a well-rounded developer.
That’s when I began to dive into NodeJS and MongoDB, as the MERN stack seemed to be the most popular framework used in the industry. I learned the basics of routing, JWT, and bcrypt. One day, I stumbled upon the NodeJS event loop, and I found it fascinating. I researched further and discovered the concepts of threads and concurrency, which were truly mind-blowing. I thought to myself, is there something even more exciting out there?
After another week of research, I decided to learn Elixir and its framework. I’m excited to see where this journey will take me and share my experiences with you all along the way.
I have seen first few free videos of knowthen by james which is amazing. currently I am going through elixirschool and reading a book called Programming elixir > 1.6. (although i am not sure why it’s >1.6 and current elixir is 1.14 version)
it’s been only two days since i started learning, although it’s exciting but it’s also hard to grasp the basics of elixir. specially pattern matching (sometimes i feel like it’s destructuring of Javascript) but it’s not, i keep forgetting the data type because it’s look quite similar. My mind always tries to match elixir concept with js concept.
I am looking forward to sharing more of my writing with you all in the future, and I welcome your feedback and thoughts as we engage in fruitful discussions and meaningful exchanges.
Neophen
It’s because the book is about the Phoenix framework which currently is at 1.7 and a lot has changed. I’ve read it too!
stefanluptak
I suppose @asadsiddiquee meant this one and it’s about Elixir 1.6 because it’s quite old and that was the most recent Elixir version at that time.
If I would have to recommend an Elixir book nowadays, I would take a look at this one.
asadsiddiquee
Yeah i meant this one. Elixir 1.6. i am not sure the reasoning behind their versioning convention. 1.6 …1.14
@stefanluptak. I will look into your recommendation. thank you
Neophen
1 is the major, 6 is the minor, 6 < 14 
KenC
Hey, everyone. 
I’m Ken, a longtime software engineer. I’ve worked in several different languages over the years, mostly front-end but some back-end, too.
I first heard about Elixir through Carlos Souza’s course on Code School back in 2017, and I was immediately hooked. I’ve been slowly learning Elixir and FP since then. It’s tough at times because FP is such a paradigm shift for me and some of the syntactic sugar that Elixir provides can seem like magic. Recently, I decided to get serious about it, so I’ve been going through Dave Thomas’ Elixir for Programmers course, and I plan on finally reading some of the now outdated books I bought years ago. 
I’ve been lurking on Elixir Forum for years, and I figure that joining will help me on my journey.
Arz
Hello from Romania!
I run a non-profit as my main day job. I’m also part owner of a new software firm. We use Elixir/Phoenix almost exclusively.
My brother-in-law introduced me to Elixir about two years ago. I was using Javascript and he was trying to get people interested in Elixir. He spent about 6 months teaching me the basics and I have continued ever since.
I’m the junior Elixir/Phoenix developer and senior UI/UX designer in our firm. Doing mostly front-end work as I come from a design background and traditional website work. However, I have two (much smarter and experienced) developers to teach me more! 
Our current project uses the latest Phoenix and LiveView versions which has been very challenging at times.
I have learned a lot from the forum already. Looking forward to being a part of it!
ivanhercaz
Hello!
I am Iván, from the Canary Islands little Atlantic archipelago in a natural region known as Macaronesia where there are another ones like Madeira, Savage Islands, Azores and Cape Verde.
I began to learn Elixir some years ago… I think it was in 2020 or in 2021. I should review the date of my first notes about Elixir 
. I have learn a lot along this years and I consider I am in constant learning.
I would like to write more about Elixir and what I achieve or learn, but I don’t get the time for that! At this moment I have a blog in which I try it, but in Spanish, to have more Elixir resources in my native language.
Have a nice day!