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Pretty sure OP meant that they're a minority in terms of market share. The number of Android phones being used is probably 5x that of iPhones.

> I forgot the fact power failures only happen in Texas No, but only Texas repeatedly ignored federal advice to fix their power grid which directly resulted in children literally f…

I've kept an eye on Gleam. Essentially all of the programming I do is based around the web so I'm kind hoping a web framework shows up at some point.

Curious, do you use typespecs and dialyzer? If so, how do you find it? Elixir checks pretty much every box I'd want in a language, but after dealing with nil in Ruby for years and …

I'm comparing the salaries because the person is qualified to do either job. Someone turned down hundreds of thousands of dollars to maintain OSS, and then is accused of embezzleme…

I agree that 2-3x is more appropriate. Either way, don't you think the maintainer of Babel could easily be making more money and doing easier work (individual contributor at some l…

Of course, it's not a joke of a salary in the United States. Is $130k a joke of a salary for an NBA player even though it's 90th percentile? Context matters. $130k is barely over t…

Not sure what you're taking issue with here.

Neither is people piling on the maintainer of Babel based on GitHub activity and someone essentially accusing them of embezzlement. Sorry if that makes me upset. $130k for a senior…

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> Neither practice is superior per se. Let's both admit that. There's nothing wrong with wanting to pick the parts yourself. But that comes at a cost and that was my original point…

> For 3.5 years with Elixir this is the first time I hear that this is a problem. Any data to back this up? My point is that it doesn't come with Phoenix out of the box (unless som…

And yet Phoenix hasn't stolen a significant amount of market share from Rails. > There are a number of web frameworks that perform much better than Rails If you're measuring hardwa…

The article doesn't even discuss benchmarking Ruby against other languages, so I'm not really sure what you're on about. Couldn't resist taking a performance jab at Rails? Also, I'…